On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:41:45AM -0600, David Phillips wrote: > > It is the client MAC address, not the router MAC address. And it is the MAC > address of the modem, not the computer connected to the modem. There are > other methods they could use, but that is the easiest. To clarify, it's the MAC address of the device requesting an IP on the ethernet side of the cable modem. In addition to that, the cable modem itself gets an IP via DHCP/BOOTP. If the device requesting an IP happens to be your NAT "router", so be it. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list