A lot of people appear to use the same MAC address. The hash is�
469947894f9e298a7726b4a58ff7bf9f. This has led to some bizarre
effects, such as grid owners banning themselves via notecards passed
around of 'known' griefers.�
Please don't ban it, as it is the hashed MAC address of the Windows
Loopback adapter.� If you use ban lists for specific avatars, use the
Disk ID0 instead.
Hundreds to thousands of Windows systems running Opensim servers have to
use the Microsoft KM-TEST loopback driver when their router does not
support loopback. This adapter quite rudely has a constant Mac address
of "02-00-4C-4F-4F-50" which is 469947894f9e298a7726b4a58ff7bf9f. � *� *
The other 'solution' for loopback, the etc/DNS hosts loopback hack, does
not work as well as it causes issues where grid owners cannot teleport
home. Linux users of Opensim may have similar issues with
etc/hosts. Linux grid owners may also add a loopback adapter 'lo', or
'lo0' which is claimed to not have a MAC address, but you may not be
safe from this bizarre ban bug. Linux MAC's appear as all zeros which
would have a different hash from the above.
# ifconfig -a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
If someone more knowledgeable could please check their logs for the
hashed MAC for Linux Loopback, I would certainly appreciate it. It
should not be banned as a general rule, too. I can add add a ban-ban
for both to all DreamGrids. Macs, while rarer, will have a similar
issue.�
Fred Beckhusen
[email protected]
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