Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Saturday 2004-01-31 at 12:05 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:


> IIANM, your MAC address is only good for internal/local networks and
> for comcast to identify your account.  You are _not_ identified on the
> net by your mac address.  Your host/domain address resolves to a dotted


MAC addresses were suppossed to be world wide unique: a part of the
address identified the card maker, the rest the card itself; of course,
that doesn't mean you can find any computer given the mac address. And MAC
addresses can be spoofed, so all this might not be true nowdays.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson