Still, at least it's an improvement on the system my university network imposed, which required pre-registration of your MAC address for your assigned room port

Still, at least it's an improvement on the system my university network imposed, which required pre-registration of your MAC address for your assigned room port. Any other MAC detected would immediately block the port at the switch level (and require a helpdesk call, and up to 3 days wait) to fix. It taught me some useful things about the linux system init process, and where to stick the mac spoofing setup call though, so not a total loss