Re: eth0 <-> eth1
Sean Morgan <macinslak@mac.com> writes:
> Also, I can't for the life of me see why a cable company would lock on to
> a MAC address. Roadrunner doesn't do this, and it would be really
Roadrunner in Eastern Mass. does do this. They're so kind as to even
put the mac address as the hostname, like
h00a0cc56d269.ne.mediaone.net
fun...
> incompetent for a cable company to authenticate on the ethernet card's
> MAC, as MACs are easily changed and I don't think that anything but the
> cable modem actually knows your ethernet card's MAC. They probably do
> authenticate based on the cable modem's MAC, but you probably couldn't
> change that even if you wanted to.
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