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

[jjohnso1 at sbcglobal.net]

Even if spoofing were not a problem, remember that the nature of the TCP/IP
protocol, there isn't an easy way to find someone's MAC address from across
the internet anyway.  If you query ARP for an IP locally, you're actually
going to get back the MAC for your "next hop" device -- not the violator's
MAC address.  So you'd be effectively banning everyone, if your server only
had a single route into your local segment.

As others have pointed out though, this a suggestion/feature/question that
could be better answered by DICE.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Brooks" <blaze at fragz.ca>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Wouldn't a news group be better than email?


> 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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