Research
- Indicates primary method of address management involves use of VLANs in which hosts are allocated subnets of address space which do not route unless properly tagged, i.e., must be coming from the authorized host
- Would involve readdressing all our devices which the sponsor is not in the position to do at this time
- Another method involves a project similar to the current proposal in the sense that it watches for changes in IP-to-MAC address pairings
- Falls short of a complete solution due to lack of flexibility (only one subnet, watches for any change and alerts—even when change is anticipated by users) and lack of scope (records maintenance, binding and unbinding of IP addresses, etc.)
Decisions Based on Research
- No significant changes to proposal based on literature survey
- Existence of current libraries for the assembly, transmission, and reception of packets obviates the need to create new packet assembly, transmission, and reception functions
- Ideas for further development include porting to non-Linux systems, restructuring to allow integration into other “proprietary” systems