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MAC Address Questions

zomgmage

zomgmage

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Long story short, I lost 6x accounts and from what people say it's due to them linking them all to me via MAC address.

I have a few questions before I get started again...I really want to start a main account again but I don't want to waste the money if it gets linked again

My internet is setup... Cable Modem -> Router -> PC... So which MAC Address would they see? My NIC Cards? My motherboard has 2x NIC onboard... Both with diffrent MAC Address.

If I only bot from 1 NIC, and use a wowtunnel service to hide my IP... And use the other NIC for my main with my orignal IP... Would that keep them from getting linked togher?
 
Do you think this would make it harder for them to link my main to my GB accounts? WoWTunnels works with HB/GB. Atleast it did last time I tryed.
 
The only way to them to have your mac address is to let WoW scan your hardware as it?s a Layer 2 protocol and routers only route layer 3 (IP address).

There is no other way they could know, MAC addres is layer 2 and is a phisical protocol layer to let your router know who what the ip in a subnet it?s routing.

you can do a fast test:

Ping your router IP then type in a CMD box: arp -a
you will see your router MAC bound to the it?s IP, now ping any internet server and type arp -a, it will say the IP you just pong has the same mac as your router, because your network card have to know that to send the packet it should sent it to the router.

PS: Some operating systems wont cache ARP request from machines behind routers, so it wont list in in the arp cache list generated by arp -a
 
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DarkBen said:
The only way to them to have your mac address is to let WoW scan your hardware as it?s a Layer 2 protocol and routers only route layer 3 (IP address).

There is no other way they could know, MAC addres is layer 2 and is a phisical protocol layer to let your router know who what the ip in a subnet it?s routing.

you can do a fast test:

Ping your router IP then type in a CMD box: arp -a
you will see your router MAC bound to the it?s IP, now ping any internet server and type arp -a, it will say the IP you just pong has the same mac as your router, because your network card have to know that to send the packet it should sent it to the router.

PS: Some operating systems wont cache ARP request from machines behind routers, so it wont list in in the arp cache list generated by arp -a
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But would that mean they could obtain the MAC address of the router itself?

If they could tie 6 accounts to the same router MAC address, that would be sufficient for the bans.
 
Joker76 said:
But would that mean they could obtain the MAC address of the router itself?

If they could tie 6 accounts to the same router MAC address, that would be sufficient for the bans.
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No they cant have your router MAC addres. the Internet is a live routing network, to reach 1 point to the other you go though a lot of routers, including but not limited to:

Your ISP, your ISP backbone, Your ISP interconected partned bacbone router, going routing until it reaches blizzards routers. so Internet is a layer 3 networkking, layer 2 is only for phisical layer meaning one router to another.

If you want to know how many routers you gou through until you reach a site, you can do a tracert in a CMD box.

E.g.: tracert www.google.com

It will show you all routers that you take to reach google.com site.

In my case, i go trough 10 routers (inclusing my own) to reach that site:


Code: 
C:\>tracert www.google.com
Rastreando a rota para www.l.google.com [64.233.163.104]
com no m?ximo 30 saltos:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  . [192.168.1.1]
  2     5 ms     6 ms     5 ms  189.27.208.1.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br [189.27.208.1]
  3     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  gvt-24-80.rd01.can.gvt.net.br [200.175.124.193]
  4    12 ms     7 ms     6 ms  gvt-ge-1-0-2.rc01.pae.gvt.net.br [189.59.252.9]
  5    25 ms    24 ms    25 ms  gvt-ge-4-0-0.rc02.pae.gvt.net.br [189.59.252.2]
  6    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  gvt-po-7-1-4-rc01.spo.gvt.net.br [189.59.248.5]
  7     *        *        *     Esgotado o tempo limite do pedido.
  8    25 ms    27 ms    39 ms  209.85.250.246
  9    28 ms    34 ms    30 ms  72.14.233.89
 10    26 ms    31 ms    35 ms  64.233.175.58
 11    30 ms    30 ms    30 ms  www.l.google.com [64.233.163.104]

Rastreamento conclu?do.
 
So how are they linking accounts then? IP?

Boss has said that he runs 7x computers, and when bans come they ban whole computer sets.. ie.. bots on computer 1, 3, 7. will get banned. and the rest that are on the same IP are fine. If its not MAC address then it has to be something else other than IP.. Maybe Computer/User name from the same IP?
 
zomgmage said:
So how are they linking accounts then? IP?

Boss has said that he runs 7x computers, and when bans come they ban whole computer sets.. ie.. bots on computer 1, 3, 7. will get banned. and the rest that are on the same IP are fine. If its not MAC address then it has to be something else other than IP.. Maybe Computer/User name from the same IP?
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you can know for sure that they know your IP. in that case your cable/adsl/satelite/whateverinternetdevice that you use to reach internet.

If you have 3 machines in a shared internet all 3 machines will have the same ip to them.
 
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