Thread: I'm being Joe-Jobbed from an NTL address
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Old 04-06-2004, 22:08   #17
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Re: I'm being Joe-Jobbed from an NTL address
Every ETHERNET device has a MAC address, but dialup modems don't (do ADSL USB devices have a MAC address?).
NOW I'm baffled, my PPP adapter (the modem I'm not using) shows a MAC address in winipcfg - 44:45:53:54:00:00 - I suspect it may be faked by Windows.

In ADSL, I believe there IS an authentication - it seems to operate like a "Dialup networking" connection.

In NTL CABLE, you have your MAC address, and your typically 99% consistent IP address.

In NTL (or any other) dialup, authentication (probably wrong to call it log in) is performed, so they must have the capability to log which user an IP was assigned to at that time, to be able to do anything about abuse.
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