MACs can be spoofed. There are entire companies which begin their sales pitch with "So, I can poison the ARP cache to take over your DNS in your Kubernetes Clus

MACs can be spoofed. There are entire companies which begin their sales pitch with "So, I can poison the ARP cache to take over your DNS in your Kubernetes Cluster" due to the NET_RAW capability required to respond to ICMP (ping). :) You'll want to use a crypto based identity if you want to ensure spoofing isn't occurring. Even then, you can still be DOSed by a malicious actor. Tools like eBPF may be able to help here by filtering out source MAC addresses that don't match the source interface's hwaddr. edit: Sorry, I didn't read this comment properly. In ZeroTier I can believe that they cannot be spoofed across the VPN due to relying on a cryptographic hash. :)