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To: Goutam who wrote (77586)	10/28/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574786

I thought if you have a cable modem you have a fixed IP address?

To: Goutam who wrote (77586)	10/28/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1574786

Goutama - RE: "I'd appreciate it very much, if any body that is knowledgeable in this matter could shed more light on this." Me too. Thanks for the info in that message.

To: Goutam who wrote (77586)	10/28/1999 3:03:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1574786

Goutama, In order to true trace someone on the net, you need their ethernet card MAC address.. someone who is really looking to do something malicious (or even secretive) can bounce their traffic off any number of unsecured proxies around the world (everyone who is running wingate with a cable modem for example). The IP on those packets would actually be the IP of the wingate proxy. In addition, if you do have an IP from and ISP who does Dynamic IP, then it MAY be possible to narrow down the list of people who got that IP by checking their logs. Of course this does not guard against things like password theft, etc. In a nut shell, no MAC address, no dice for tracing someone on the net. Steve