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On Wednesday 01 January 2003 07:09, wrote:
> In other words, if the MAC address of your cable modem doesn't match the
> unique hardware number of the same each and every time your IP comes up,
> you might keep getting packets, at least long enough for the KGB to break
> the door down and confiscate every single piece of electrical equipment and
> paper remotely involved or connected to a computer. I know I sure wouldn't
> want to be adjusting some unbeknownst to him or her's morphine drip in an
> ICU somewhere in some part of the world that isn't quite up to par with us.
uuuuuuh.
your MAC address doesn't have anything to do with routing outside of your
local network. in the case of your cable modem, that would be your physical
neighbourhood (assuming they use ethernet; i don't know if they do)... you
would end up messing up a neighbour's internet connectivity if you used the
same MAC address as their cable "modem"...
you couldn't interfere with a hospital here in Calgary, let alone one in
Moscow, by messing w/your MAC.
say it with me now: *local* network.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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