Re: [SLE] Comcast and NAT

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