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Locking unmanaged tenants to their IP: anti-spoofing for dedicated servers and Proxmox VMs (MikroTik, Cisco Nexus, Proxmox)

28/09/2026 by chris

How we stop unmanaged dedicated servers and VMs from adding extra IPs, changing MACs, ARP/NDP spoofing or running rogue DHCP/RA on a shared /24 — with MikroTik raw rules, Cisco Nexus port-security and the Proxmox VE firewall. Verified on production, with the gotchas.

Categories Network, Security Tags Cisco Nexus, MikroTik, Proxmox

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