Re: swbell DSL bug ?

[sarnold () WILLAMETTE EDU (Seth R Arnold)]

Ryan, that just means they don't keep good enough track of things --
dhcp servers can be configured to assign leases only for certain MACs.

* Ryan Sweat <batrox () SWBELL NET> [000507 17:13]:
>      Southwester Bell is a big provider of dsl access in some parts of the US.  Dhcp provides an IP address and the 
> lease expires in about 72 hours.  They claim the IP cannot be changed, however when playing around last night, I 
> found if you install another ethernet card, and switch the cable to the new card, it happily gives you another IP 
> address.  The dhcp server must rely on mac address when providing a lease for an ip.  This could pose many problems.  
> How can accounting be kept when a user can change his ip whenever he likes?  I have more testing to do, but I do not 
> see why you couldnt install a few nic cards and get ip address for each one, which swbell would like to charge you 
> much more money for.  I am looking into a way to change the mac address in windows. I know it can be done in linux 
> through ifconfig.  Maybe somone has experience in this ??
>
> batrox () swbell net

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