On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Actually, it is the ethernet card. > > I know it doesn't seem to make sense, but that's the way cable ISPs > work. The modem is a sortof bridge, and the ethernet MAC address passes > through. You can verify it quite easilly if you run arpwatch on a gateway.
This means that the cables modem and RF system in general function as a brodge. This doesn't mean, however, that they can't link a MAC address to a modem MAC address. Though this means yet anther lookup table. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
