[bf1942] Wouldn't a news group be better than email?

Scott Brooks blaze at fragz.ca
Sat Jan 11 04:44:19 EST 2003


Mac addresses are spoofable, and need to be sent from the client.  If
the server had access to a hash of the cd key already, it would work out
alot better since it's not spoofable.

Scott

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 02:27, bishop wrote:
> but if you ban a MAC address you ban him from the machine in the normal way
> and if you have more game server it can be a problem in some ways
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Burton West" <roger at firedrake.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Wouldn't a news group be better than email?
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:24:10PM -0600, Robert Cash wrote:
> > >Maybe a better way to block a punk would be to somehow capture their MAC
> > >address and ban on that info....just my .02
> >
> > MAC addresses can be controlled from software.
> >
> > R
> >
> 
> 






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