Mac Adress

Matrf · Post by **Matrf** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:36 pm

Anyone know how i change my mac adress of my network card?

I have found this web page , but this is not working.

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBG/TIP3000/rh3020.htm

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 9:37 am

Very few cards support that function. As a matter of fact, I know of none. Maybe someone else can help here?

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 11:17 am

That would be chaos - too many folks would end up with the same MAC...dunno either

On the other hand, many soho routers allow you to manually input the MAC for the WAN.

Skye

Matrf · Post by **Matrf** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 12:53 pm

by the registry?

i just dont understand one of the last things :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<Your NIC>

what is my nic????

this is where i am block .

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:13 pm

As the web site you posted and the posts above stated, very few NIC's have changeable MAC's.

Bret · Post by **Bret** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:56 pm

In most, if not all of the NICs, the MAC address is hard coded into the chip and cannot be changed. The only place I have heard of where the MAC can be changed is in a router, as was stated earlier.

Robot Army · Post by **Robot Army** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:42 pm

1st 6 digits of MAC identify manufacturer, last 6 identify card itself; unique & can't be changed-burned into card. NAT Routers have their own unique MAC, but you can choose to have the router use the MAC addr of a NIC behind it instead of it's own. I'm curious, why would you want/ need to alter your MAC addr....hmmmm?

Matrf · Post by **Matrf** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 3:58 pm

some said it was possible so i want to know if i can do it whit my dlink530tx.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 5:03 pm

Bouncer · Post by **Bouncer** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 8:45 pm

Understand,

The Media Access Control number on your NIC is specific to the manufacturer and production lot of your card (It's not acutally a totally unique Identifier though it comes very close). It is a firmware fixed id and cannot be altered other than by altering the firmware.

There is some software that will let you alter the TCP/IP stack to report another MAC address, and as well, a router has the ability to spoof it's MAC address for yours.

Other than that you're pretty much out of luck. I'm not sure why you'd want to do this anyways.

Regards,
-Bouncer-

Matrf · Post by **Matrf** » Wed Jul 10, 2002 11:31 pm

the software , you got an adress or just a name of software to doing that? anyway you gave me a lot of information thanks.

legalmind · Post by **legalmind** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:56 am

Yes there is a way!
Go buy a new one...............

howie1253 · Post by **howie1253** » Thu Jul 11, 2002 11:34 am

Changing your NIC will almost surely give you a new IP if your ISP uses dynamic IP's. If that's what you are trying to do by changing your MAC, a new NIC will do it....