On Wednesday 06 January 2010 20:01:18 John Hasler wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > > MAC addresses are not normally used for network identification outside > > of their segment. In addition, none of the higher level protocols in > > common use contain the MAC address in their headers. > > The reason being that said network segments are not necessarily Ethernet > at all. That wouldn't prevent some protocol from including an opaque, 64-bit representation of the layer 1 address in it's headers, which would be a MAC address for many IP addresses. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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