If you go and buy any of the new 100 dollar firewall/routers by SMC or linksys you can change the mac on them no problem. Infact they have a specific clone mac address function on the SMC's. We sell them to our customer for use with there wireless internet for multiple computers. We set them to clone the mac address so we don't have to change the security settings on our end. Michael Mimbach michael at mimbach.com Senior RF/Network Engineer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew LaBerge" <labmat at mn.mediaone.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:48 PM Subject: RE: [TCLUG] MAC addresses > There are a lot of software manufacturers that would shit their pants if a > card existed that could do this. I'd be able to get Pro/Engineer running on > my system for free then. Somehow I don't think PTC would like that, I > wouldn't like it either seeing as my company pays $20,000 a year to use the > software. Very unsettling to hear this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On > Behalf Of Phil Mendelsohn > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:30 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] MAC addresses > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Nate Carlson wrote: > > > Some cards do allow you to change your MAC address. > > > > If the card supports it, the command: > > > > ifconfig eth0 hw ether nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn > > > > will do it. > > Can one of you network gurus explain how this is legal, by Ethernet specs? > I'm a little out of date, but MAC addresses were supposed to be sacrosanct > physical IDs that are unique for each card. Of course this was late 70's > or early 80's, and there was no danger of running out of them! > > > I thought changing MAC would carry the possibility that you might end up > with very low-level net problems, if you're exposed (i.e., what if you > grab someone else's MAC.) I also thought they were issued by a standards > body to manufacturers, but it seems I have a little to learn. > > -- > "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >