Re: [SLE] Comcast and NAT

On Saturday 31 January 2004 19.09, Ken Schneider wrote:

Again hostnames are IP based -not- MAC based. What Comcast did was register your MAC address into there database to make sure only one PC was using the service. MAC addresses are only used at the hardware level IAANM.

It is perfectly possible to set up a DHCP/DNS server to always give the same IP to a certain MAC address, and/or update the DNS server so the same name always points to the same MAC