RE: trying to reconcile two threads

[Ari Ollikainen <Ari at OLTECO.com>]

At 3:57 PM -0600 11/28/01, Charles Adams wrote:
> This may be the wrong time to interject this, but I know of a local cable
> company that requires you to register a single MAC address.  As the cable
> company requires their technicians to install the modem, they can prevent
> you from installing a router at a later time (I realize that
> software can be installed on the PC to accomplish the same tasks).
> They rate usage by
'users', which they tie to MAC addresses.

	And some clever cable/DSL router/NAT vendors even provide
	a MAC "clone" function which presents the registered MAC address
	on the ethernet port facing the modem...


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