While performing an on-site assessment you find that all switch ports run 802.1X. Non-802.1X devices such as printers are allowed onto the production VLAN through MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB). You capture traffic from a nearby authorized printer. Which technique will most reliably give your laptop full network access without valid 802.1X credentials?
Launch a DHCP starvation attack and serve internal addresses from a rogue DHCP server.
Change your NIC to the printer's MAC address and reconnect so the switch passes MAB.
Transmit forged EAPOL-Logoff frames to knock the printer offline and keep the port open.
Send double-tagged Ethernet frames to hop from the guest VLAN into the production VLAN.
MAC Authentication Bypass identifies devices only by the source MAC address seen on the switch port. By changing your network card to use the printer's MAC address you satisfy the MAB check and the switch assigns the same trusted VLAN, even though you never supply 802.1X credentials. The other options do not grant authenticated VLAN access: sending forged EAPOL-Logoff frames may disrupt the printer but leaves the port in an unauthenticated or guest state; VLAN double-tagging attacks target trunk-encapsulation weaknesses, not NAC; DHCP starvation with a rogue server hands out IP addresses but the port still remains blocked by 802.1X enforcement. Therefore, cloning the authorized device's MAC address is the practical method for evading NAC in this scenario.
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