[OLUG] Program idea.

Vincent vraffensberger at home.com
Wed Jan 5 02:44:53 UTC 2000


Tim Russell wrote:
> 
> 
> Now, here, I must respectfully disagree.  You're just plain wrong.  Ethernet
> cards have MAC addresses, modems don't.  When you dial up with PPP to an
> ISP, the terminal server on the other end does a "proxy ARP", which means
> that the MAC address associated with your IP address is the MAC address of
> the server you dial into, and is absolutely and totally unaccessable to a
> program on the client machine.  It wouldn't mean anything if it was
> accessable, because it would be the same as anyone else dialed into that
> server.
> 
> 
Thank you, I didn't realize that.  I never even gave it a thought.  I
had believed that was necessary for tcp/ip.

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