Re: No serial number at all in ALL Pentium 4's (also older 1.4Ghz)?! Is it REALLY true?!

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 02/04/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:46:45 GMT

In article <3C5CD613.101@jargonccna.cjb.net>,
Matt Coe, CCNA <webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net, webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net> wrote:
>The thing is, though, that your MAC address isn't known past your
>nearest router. MACs can't be traced across the internet unless you can
>tell the computer to send it through an IP packet.

And the serial number isn't even known to your router, so in order for
someone to exploit that they would have to tell the computer to send it
through an IP packet. If you can get the computer to send its serial
number, it shouldn't be any harder to get it to send you its MAC address. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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