Ban by network MAC address?

**henrygale** · 08-10-2016

Since early this morning my bots have been banned when running 2 or more.

They are all proxied with different IMEI's but I wonder if Niantic are detecting MAC Address which packets originate from and blocking it based on that?

**sn4rk** · 08-10-2016

I don't think so. It seems they have more strict rules so it's probably harder to run 2 bots from the same ip, yesterday i had no problem with 3 bots today i cant run even 2. Maybe i have to optimise my config to be human like

**Fadelol** · 08-10-2016

No, they can't see the MAC-address on your Internet facing NIC. It is IP-based.

**henrygale** · 08-10-2016

Originally Posted by Fadelol

No, they can't see the MAC-address on your Internet facing NIC. It is IP-based.

this ^ cheers for clarifying

**chancity** · 08-10-2016

Once a packet leaves your network the source and destination MAC addresses are replaced between hops. So by the time your packet reaches their server the source MAC address would be the receiving servers gateway MAC address and the destination MAC would be the receiving servers. If that makes any since.....lol