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XP software bridge Mac address
Name: David Leidig Date: August 26, 2004 at 14:25:15 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: na
Comment:
I have a computer with an Ethernet adapter, and a wireless adapter. Well, I want to bridge them, and give the bridge a Mac address of my Ethernet adapter. (It is registered and allowed on the network here) is that possible?
Name: jefro Date: August 27, 2004 at 13:56:09 Pacific
Reply:
No, you can't bridge two adapters using same mac address to be exact. Packets would never be sent to the correct one.
Some NIC's and some routers/NAT's can clone mac address to spoof connections. Check with your hardware info.
What do you want to do actually? Are you saying that you want to be wireless with your computer that is now connected cat5? That has nothing to do with a bridge.
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Response Number 2
Name: David Leidig Date: August 31, 2004 at 10:12:11 Pacific
Reply:
Here we have to register our mac address. I registered with the mac address of my ethernet card, but I have a wireless router (which i disabled routing DHCP capabilities... so I could use wireless, but still see the main LAN (file sharing etc)) I ended up just changing the Mac addy on wireless to the one that I registered.
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