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Mac address/Physical address
Name: KBN Date: January 10, 2001 at 06:42:10 Pacific
Comment:
Is it possible to manipulate the Mac address/Physical address of my Intel based ethernet adapter ? By program or ... ?
Name: neal Date: January 10, 2001 at 08:15:12 Pacific
Reply:
No. These are burned into the ROMs. Each address is used only once so it can not be changed. They are registered to the manufacturer and issued in blocks by the FEDS.
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Response Number 2
Name: Billy Date: January 10, 2001 at 20:06:26 Pacific
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I think it could be managed by Software. Becuase I can change the MAC address in Netware Client, But I don't know how to change it on WIndows NT. If you know about that, please give me a email. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: johnny Date: January 17, 2001 at 12:34:35 Pacific
Reply:
just to jump in.... the whole basis of the MAC address being embedded into hardware is that it is set in stone and individually assigned to the venders to use. It can't be changed.
Summary: go to your dos prompt on any computer then type ipconfig /all you will see the mac address it is labeled as physical address. have a good day!!!!!!!!!!! ...
Summary: you cant change the mac address, it a unique address given to the network card makers how give it the address, there are no duplicate mac addresses in the whole world, duplicate mac address would hav...
Summary: Running NT/2000 boxes on an internal DHCP-based network. I need a way to uniquely identify any workstation upon login to a webserver or portal. I thought perhaps the NIC's MAC address may be used, b...
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To many connections to NT...
