On Wed, Dec 10, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Cable Internet, 012, and what's between it...": > Lastly, reconsider whether you really want to use DHCP to connect. This > means your username and password are not checked, and you are > authenticated based on..... your network card's MAC address. Yes, that's > right.
So what? This sort of "authentication"'s only purpose is to protect the ISP from unauthorized people connecting to their network - you shouldn't care diddly squat about this. You're not paying per minute or per megabyte, and nobody can "steal" anything from you if they break this "authentication". And I even doubt that they really use only your MAC address for their own protection - the cable network probably knows from which apartment your connection is coming and whether you're authorized to use the Internet service. To protect *yourself*, you'll need something completely different, such as running a firewall on your Linux machine and a bunch of other security precautions. I have a cable internet connection, with Matav and 012, and I do have DHCP (this is something Matav had to set up, not 012, as far as I understood!), and it is working great. I can even run DHCP on several computers, and get several separate IP addresses, which in some situations is very convenient. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Dec 10 2003, 15 Kislev 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of http://nadav.harel.org.il |those from? ================================================================= 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]
