RE: New security testing tool

[<kyle () kylelai com>]

Thanks Mike,

Can you please share what you use SMAC for?

I hope SMAC (www.klcconsulting.net/smac) will resolve many issues, and let
security and network administrators benefit from it.

One benefit:  SMAC resolve small/medium size company with setting up a
stand-by servers ("semi" high-availability) for firewall, database servers,
email and application servers because now they can setup 2 "identical
systems" with same computer name, IP and MAC addresses!  When the primary
server goes down, just unplug primary server from the net and plugin the
stand-by server, user will not get extended down-time because MAC address
stays the same and there is no confusion on the arp-table.

Obvious they will have to find a mean to replicate the primary and stand-by
systems.  The user can put a router between the 2 systems due to the same
MAC addresses on 2 systems, but they can simply do this by putting a router
that support NAT with port mapping (even a cheap Linksys DSL router will
do), which will allow these 2 systems to replicate without problems.  Real
cheap solution for real stand-by systems.

Of course there are many other applications and benefits you can see from
the SMAC website.

Thanks,
/Kyle


Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA
KLC Consulting, Inc.
klai () klcconsulting net
www.klcconsulting.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Shaw [mailto:mshaw () wwisp com]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:25 PM
To: kyle () kylelai com; pen-test () securityfocus com;
security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: New security testing tool


God bless you for this.  This was perfect timing on a particular issue I'm
having.

-Mike
(CISSP, CCNA)

At 12:52 AM 1/10/2003 -0500, kyle () kylelai com wrote:
> Here is a new secuirty testing tool, SMAC 1.0, for changing MAC addresses
on
> almost any network adapters on Windows 2000 & XP:
>
> http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac
>
> cheers,
> /Kyle
>
> Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA
> KLC Consulting, Inc.
> klai () klcconsulting net
> www.klcconsulting.net
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