Re: Its War!


C.Joseph S. Drayton;949678 Wrote:

Hate to tell you Stanley, but that may not be the case. If your
plugging the laptop in your office, then they probably have your MAC
address since most big companies use static IPs for each office. So
they would know where the laptop was plugged in. Their assumption would
be that no one should be hooking into your office without your
permission. Once they have your MAC address, they could then authorize
it to use in other sections of the building.

Even if they used dynamic IPs, they could still know it was you. You
have to login to the network, and the router knows which IP is doing
the logging in. They could then tie the MAC address attached to the IP
that is logging in to you.

Then as I said once they have your MAC address, no matter where you are
on the LAN, they would know it was your machine.


Thanks for all the clarification!

But when I plug my laptop in, and get on the internet, I don?t have to
first login! I just plug in and that?s it.

Are you saying though that the server knows the location within the
building where I am ?plugging in? even if it this does not involve
actually logging in to the network?


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stanley
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