Comcast ... MAC Addr

[Brian Densmore]

I was running ethereal on my network over the weekend. Where would I
look in there for the mac address. I was doing some testing on my
personal firewall w/ masquerading. I was doing that because iptables
wasn't working, and the Mandrake (*&#%#$%#$#$&!) configuration stuff was
screwing everything up. I finally got that working although now Mandrake
GUI RPM tools no longer work (long story). To make a long story short. I
got my home network working again with the masquerading. I used ethereal
to help me diagnose and fix it. 

Thanks again for the mini-conference on Ethereal. 

I was watching the packets get translated from one machine back to the
other. I saw no indication that any external machine could "see"/"know"
it came from anything except my ipmasqed firewall/server.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Fowler [mailto:jfowler at westrope.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:48 PM
> To: David Carter; Kclug
> Subject: RE: From Slashdot: Comcast goes after NAT users-MAC Addr
> 
> 
>  
> > Jeremy,
> > 
> > Re, ". . . the MAC address IS the address of the 
> originating device. . . .":
> > 
> > 1)  What does the acronym MAC stand for? (just curious, not 
> important to me)
> 
> Medium Access Control
>  
> > 2) What is the originating device?  The Syslink 4 port 
> router (firewall)
> > that my 2 or 3 computers are tied into, which then goes out 
> the DSL modem?
> 
> The device that originally sent the packet out onto the network. 
> (One of your 2 or 3 computers)
>  
> 
> 
> 
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