Re: [NTLK] PCMCIA Ethernet card MAC address

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 16:11:14 EDT


But, if you're proxying, there is no way that the
provider can be aware that you have any more machines
than your one forward facing machine. You can add
security by adding a second NIC and creating an
internal "subnet" Isolate the two NICs and the carrier
is none the wiser.
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)

--- Peter Cameron <pdwc_at_sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I read this and all I could do is wonder...
> > There is no reason (and no way) that the DSL
> provider
> > would need your MAC address of your Newton's
> network
> > card.
> I haven't heard of any DSL providers in my area
> doing this, but a major cable provider has. A lot of
> owners of multiple Macs one day found only one of
> the computers would connect. All the others were
> denied access because the connection software
> somehow polled the ethernet address.
> As a consequence they've lost a lot of Mac
> clients and the Mac stores I've talked to are now
> steering people to DSL instead.
> Of course those with routers are cloning the
> accepted address.

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