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Malfeasant@lemmy.world 5 days agoEvery broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.
teft@piefed.social 5 days ago
No it doesn’t. Go learn about networking, the OSI model, and ARP tables if you believe that.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.
teft@piefed.social 5 days ago
It’s not being an asshole. It’s correcting misinformation. Sniffing packets doesn’t mean you understand networking as evidenced by the fact you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.
Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.