Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port?

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On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:55:53 -0500, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed the
following:

>In article <mailman.5336.1389476410.18130.python-list@python.org>,
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We had a connection set up a few years
>> ago where the ISP tech recorded the source MAC into the far end, and
>> only that MAC would work - so when I stuck in a different router, I
>> needed to switch it to the old MAC before it could establish a
>> connection. Stupid? Yes. Unusual? I hope so
>
>Actually, I think it's pretty common.
>

	In my situation, the first thing I did with the router was "MAC address
clone" of my desktop computer... Why? My ISP wanted [still does, I think]
to charge $10/month for the privilege of a LAN vs direct single connection
(worse, for the same router I already had owned).

	This way, if I did encounter problems, I would be able to bypass the
router without appearing as a different NIC to the DSL adapter (granted, I
might have had a different problem, as the adapter was in bridge mode and I
never installed the PPPoE software on my desktop; my router handled that).
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 06:26 -0800
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Andriy Kornatskyy <andriy.kornatskyy@live.com> - 2014-01-11 16:35 +0200
    Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 15:54 +0000
      Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 11:29 -0500
        Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 08:40 +1100
          Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-11 16:55 -0500
            Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 09:08 +1100
            Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-12 11:22 -0500
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 01:38 +1100
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-12 01:52 +1100
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-01-11 09:03 -0600
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 09:34 -0700
    Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Sam <lightaiyee@gmail.com> - 2014-01-11 17:25 -0800
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-01-13 10:42 -0500
  Re: How to get Mac address of ethernet port? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 03:47 +1100

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