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Dark Fiber · 24-02-2007, 19:45

Mark,
<Grovel Mode ON/ It may amuse you to know (or it may annoy you intensely!) that my speculations were based on a mistake. I wrongly thought that Stripes had _successfully_ spoofed the G3 MAC address into his iMac and that this had _not_ permitted connection to the cable network. I was confident that using a gateway router cloned to the G3 MAC address would work. Consequently, I was casting about for ways to resolve the apparent paradox. Hence my ideas that the MAC in a spoofed computer might return the hard MAC address if the MAC acted autonomously in response to the ISP probe. /Grovel Mode OFF>

Thank you for the Wiki info, it will take some time to assimilate. I note that the Wiki includes the phrase "if the service provider is able to detect that a MAC address is spoofed". How would this be achieved if the spoofed hardware is truly _identical_ in its responses to unaltered hardware? Do you, in fact, believe that the MACs in home gateway routers are identical with those installed in computers?

24-02-2007, 19:45	#101
Dark Fiber Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: OX5 Services: (xNTL) VMDG480mm Posts: 83	Re: HELP! iMac, cable modem won't go. Mark, <Grovel Mode ON/ It may amuse you to know (or it may annoy you intensely!) that my speculations were based on a mistake. I wrongly thought that Stripes had _successfully_ spoofed the G3 MAC address into his iMac and that this had _not_ permitted connection to the cable network. I was confident that using a gateway router cloned to the G3 MAC address would work. Consequently, I was casting about for ways to resolve the apparent paradox. Hence my ideas that the MAC in a spoofed computer might return the hard MAC address if the MAC acted autonomously in response to the ISP probe. /Grovel Mode OFF> Thank you for the Wiki info, it will take some time to assimilate. I note that the Wiki includes the phrase "if the service provider is able to detect that a MAC address is spoofed". How would this be achieved if the spoofed hardware is truly _identical_ in its responses to unaltered hardware? Do you, in fact, believe that the MACs in home gateway routers are identical with those installed in computers?