What are some of the limitations of MAC address filtering?

What will be an ideal response?


Like turning off SSID beaconing, MAC address filtering has several limitations:
* Managing a large number of MAC addresses is difficult and can create avenues for attackers.
* MAC address filtering does not provide a means to temporarily allow a guest user to access the network other than acquiring the MAC address and entering it manually into the access point.
* WLANs initially exchange MAC addresses in cleartext.
* A MAC address can be "spoofed" or substituted.

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