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Originally Posted by stripes
I know it's Saturday, but could you have a look at my no.2 question above, i.e. what does it prove? I am not really bothered about having a pop at ntl, it will only arise if I can't disconnect my G3 from the now growing circuitry.
Cheers.
Allen.
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In my opinion, the fact that the router didn't work until you cloned the G3 address into it strongly implies (but doesn't prove) that all the problems have been down to VM/ntl because now you've been unable to connect three computers (2 iMacs and the router) when it should have been straightforward.
melevittfl - I don't accept any of your points and my post was as long as it was because I was continually pasteing "Media Access Controller" when I meant hardware and "MAC address" when I meant data
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In short, even if a machine is set up for "spoofing", I don't see how you can rule out responses (that wouldn't involve the OS software) to ISP interrogation with the "hard" MAC address unless the computer's MAC hardware has some writable registers which for normal use it wouldn't need. Conversely, a gateway router has a Media Access Controller where those registers are able, by design, to be written to. Before cloning, my Belkin router had the same MAC address facing the WAN as facing the LAN- and that's against the rules
BTW I'm not claiming to be right, just logical! I would like to hear from any networking guru and any Mac hardware guru about my points.