On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:45 -0500, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Ethernet (specifically mentioned over and over here) does NOT handle > duplicate MAC addresses very well. At the very minimum, you would knock > at least one of your "cloned" Asterisk machines off of the network, > pretty much defeating the purpose of the scam in the first place.
not totally true, it is on paper, but implementation doesnt always mean the same thing as paper. I have had multiple systems with the same mac address on the same network for other purposes and did not have problems with those systems talking to each other or other devices on the network as a general rule. Same MAC different IP. I have seen some switches freak out becuase the same mac addr is on multiple ports and it doesnt know which one to send it to. The original thing I said that resulted in 'wow anyway' as the most clever response I have seen in a while did include methods that would have enabled one to defeat the MAC address checking without actually changing the MAC address, again proving that copy protection is largely a waste of time from a technical standpoint, but not one from a business standpoint. Personally I dont think that digium would care if everyone had G729 but the patent holder does, so they must respect those wishes. As for what digium was going for I think they were doing what they had to so they wont be sued since they dont own the patent and have to pay someone and we live in a sue happy society. No matter what they did there would be a way of defeating it, some just require less skill to defeat. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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