On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:25:43PM -0500, Sean Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:44:19 -0500
>
> Also, I can't for the life of me see why a cable company would lock on to
> a MAC address. Roadrunner doesn't do this, and it would be really
> incompetent for a cable company to authenticate on the ethernet card's
> MAC, as MACs are easily changed and I don't think that anything but the
> cable modem actually knows your ethernet card's MAC. They probably do
> authenticate based on the cable modem's MAC, but you probably couldn't
> change that even if you wanted to.
>
I cable ISP I work for uses both. The modem's MAC to identify the user
as one of our customers, and the NIC's MAC to make sure the customer is
only connecting one computer at a time.
If either one of those numbers doens't match the ones in our database
the user is givven an internal IP and will be redirected to a special
page from where he can register his new equipment.
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