On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400 vr <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router? > > > > The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company.
True, but many companies make both routers and regular NICs. Is there any way to tell from the MAC whether we're dealing with, say, a Linksys router as opposed to one of their NICs? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

