Well, the only way I see of uniquely and securely determining if this is the network you want is not an easy problem-- it would require changes in a lot of routing infrastructure... In any case, I can't think of another ID -likely- to be unique on the network. -R On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:48 pm, Carwyn Edwards wrote: > Michael Favia wrote: > > We bet a lot of things on theoretical uniqueness in computing. Short > > of spoofing and freakish occurances im personally willing to bet my > > "home" on the uniqueness of a mac address. > > Really? Even though there is hardware out there that lets the user > manually assign the MAC and that there are routers out there that > "spoof" MACs for use with broadband ISP access controls? > > Carwyn
