do REALLY know what youre talking about or just repeating things that you've heard?
first off, your media access control id (location) and your ip address CAN be the same location, ie a dedicated server sitting on line w/out a gateway... not very efficient, but plausable nonethless. (I just dont want you to mislead these kiddo's out there that might think an ip addr is something that they have some sort of controll over and can optimize or something). it is certianly the same thing as your network addr.
second of all "ipconfig" WILL give you every network address there present. that website has no way of telling what your network (MAC
) ip is unless youre locally on the same network.
third, no! his d-up ip and network WILL not be the same.....I NEVER SAID IT WAS...lay off the booze cronic.
fourth, if you're such a "guru" as your title says, you'd know that youre not gonna be assigned a static ip with dial up! anyone that halfway understands the way the internet works would know that. now when ipv6 comes out in full swing then yea, you could feasibly have an ip for every d-up acct, but not w/v4.
I'd interpret it as seeing the MAC address and the IP address. Not the same thing.
now, i havent used windows in QUITE some time now, but i know that you WONT see your MAC addr in ipconfig. (maybe it shows it to you using the /all switch, but i doubt it [though i could be wrong]) If you remember a MAC addr looks something like 0C-15-8F-00-6D-EE this. your standard ip addr is part of you network layer and the MAC is part of the data link layer, so i doubt it would show you both. you usually configure your network (notice the word NETWORK in network layer) using an ip and a subnet mask. since a dialup acct is treated as a subnet internally within the isp you wont see that in ipconfig. but you will see YOUR subnet mask.
sorry i had to do this, but if youre gonna help someone dont bi.t.ch @ me, help them. if any of this information is useful to bluzeboy great. its better you do some research & know a little more than a little before you go ofering expert advice on something that you just HEARD of.