On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

> AFAIK, you can't... MAC addresses are uniques numbers assigned to NICs at
> time of production by the manufacturer. 

It depends on the hardware. The inbuilt Ethernet interfaces on Sun
machiens, for example, can have their MAC addresses programmed.

> I can't see the point of wanting to change this, but you must have
> your reasons... perhaps you can enlighten me on this one...

One use for this ability is when building Trojan machines to pop under the
raised flooring of corporate datacenters. With the ability to change MAC
addresses, it can pretend to be any machine on the subnet, and do some
creative stuff with corporate systems :-)

> 
> cheerio Berndt
> 

ABS

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