On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:36 -0600, Greg Wallace wrote: > On Thursday, January 25, 2007 @ 5:46 AM, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > > >> James Knott wrote: > >> > > >> > >> That simply doesn't make sense. The purpose of the MAC address is to > >> > >> enable devices to communicate over the local network and nothing > more. > > >I'm just shooting in the dark here, but.................... > > >When you "clone the MAC Address" what are you actually doing? > > I thought I had all of this stuff figured out, but now I'm not so sure. > However, that being said, I think that simply means you're taking the mac > address of some other device and pretending to be that device. My router > has place where I can select this option and, if I do, it opens up a box > that has a mac address already in it, which I assume is the mac address of > the router. If I wanted to, I could simply key in my computer's mac address > and, in effect, pretend to be the computer. If your ISP has only authorized > your computer's mac address, this would let the router step in between the > computer and the ISP and the ISP wouldn't know the difference, since you > have "cloned" the mac address of the computer, which is what the ISP (modem) > is expecting. I probably have this all wrong, but I think that's the idea. >
Actually you have it entirely correct. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
