NFPS / Private MAC addresses

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Hey guys I'm wondering something.. What's gonna happen when this service is fully running and some people will be using stb emulators on Android or other apps to simulate the mag stalker system.
Can't there be duplicate MACs? How is NFPS/ROCKET going to deal with that? Doesn't their panel detect duplicates? Wouldn't people be able to just clone their MAC and watch on several devices?
How is that going to affect paid subscribers using emulators?
Just something I thought of now trying to setup stb emulator.
 
#3
Remember... Its an open trial/beta so when the authentication might go into effect the stb emulatot might stop working... And the reason lots of server dont allow the stb emulator to run its for that same reason... Imagine an stb emulator running with x mac adrss , a mag254 try to connect with exact same mac ... The mag254 is left out... No way to get the service or to change the mac addrss on the mag254 , the other way arround is easy you just switch up the mac on the stb emu and done... If there going to choose mac authentification... They probably will.. Stb emu might get shut out.. And thats all the android devices... We can only wait and see..
 
#6
C/P From NFPS

you have a good point and recommendations but to prevent this kind of issue we are planning to implement 2 authentication methods:

- MAC Address
- Username and Password, the same donation number for both like we do for IKS.

So don't worry about it.



im not sure how, but im sure they got it under control
 
#9
toyz4tv said:
Hey guys I'm wondering something.. What's gonna happen when this service is fully running and some people will be using stb emulators on Android or other apps to simulate the mag stalker system.
Can't there be duplicate MACs? How is NFPS/ROCKET going to deal with that? Doesn't their panel detect duplicates? Wouldn't people be able to just clone their MAC and watch on several devices?
How is that going to affect paid subscribers using emulators?
Just something I thought of now trying to setup stb emulator.
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Imo, any STB (other than a Mag) that has a mac address and uses an emulator would work. But Please correct me if im wrong
 
#10
The first 6 hexdigits of a MAC determine the manufacturer of the network device. It would be nice if those that are using the emulator on an android or PC would stick to their actual MAC addresses to minimize the chance of cloning to another registered MAC. When the service goes live, I hope that the first 6 digits are not ignored by the validation algorithm, to also reduce the chance of duplicate MACs.
 
#15
I don't know how this will be implemented, but a donation number, as well as the MAC should be enough to make a unique key. I guess the middleware will need the donation number from the client software, and hopefully the same method will be available for the MAGs as well as the android emulator.
 
#16
If I am using this emulated using a FireTV and want to sign up for a private server, am I better off giving them the mac address I made up or the actual mac address of the device? even though the initial 6 digits won't match with the mag250 or mag254 mac addresses? for when this free trial is over.
 
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#17
wangster71 said:
If I am using this emulated using a FireTV and want to sign up for a private server, am I better off giving them the mac address I made up or the actual mac address of the device? even though the initial 6 digits won't match with the mag250 or mag254 mac addresses? for when this free trial is over.
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With emulation, there is always going to be a chance for duplication for MACs to a real MAG. The server won't know if your MAC is real or not unless it figures out that it's connected to a emulator, so it probably won't matter. Validation may resolve the chance of duplication, making it less likely that you will hit a MAC that is owned by someone else, but we don't know that yet.
 
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