RE: trying to reconcile two threads

[Charles Adams <CAdams at USPIPE.com>]

It's rather difficult to give a cable company the MAC address of your
router, when in fact they setup your connection on-site.  There's also the
assumption that you can change the MAC address on all routers.  For most
people on this list, it would be somewhat simple to 'foil the system' of a
cable company.  I just have a hard time believing that the majority of the
customer base for a cable company would have the technical ability to do so.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: Pekka Savola [mailto:pekkas at netcore.fi]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:33 AM
To: Charles Adams
Cc: ietf at ietf.org
Subject: RE: trying to reconcile two threads


On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Fred Baker wrote:
> At 01:57 PM 11/28/2001, 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.
>
> mine does that. I gave them the mac address of my router.

And even if not that, if you gave them your workstations MAC address, you
could change your router's MAC address to that and select some random one
for your workstation...

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
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