Before the steam auth system was compromised, steamIDs were the perfect ban identifier. Alfred's words were "nosteam will be considered a cheat and they will be banned...", but i think he was being fecitious. Obviously this issue needs to be addressed.
Dave On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:11:56 -0500, Napier, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dude I'm not talking about network traffic.. (as I said I was talking about > capturuing it on the client (query the card) wrap it up in and just sending > it along with the other connection\login info for the request).. that's.. > Again all a pointless discussion anyway. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of m0gely > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] Suggestion for VAC2. > > Whisper wrote: > > > That being said, it still won't help you with Modem users who don't > > have a MAC address, well not one in the same way a NIC does. > > Dudes, your MAC (hardware) address never makes it to the servers you > play on unless they are on the local LAN. They aren't routed. You can > swap out, spoof, change, kick and spit on all your network gear all you > want. You can't control this sort of thing via MAC address over the > net. Sniff packets or something and you'll find out that all the > players on your server have the same MAC. It's the MAC of the router > your server is behind. You want to ban that? > > -- > - m0gely > http://quake2.telestream.com/ > Q2 | Q3A | Counter-strike > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
