![]() If you replace a router and do not want to wait for convergence, you can "spoof" the new router with the MAC of the old appliance. I apologize for bringing up something which many of you have either never needed to do. I guess I'm the only one who has chased a few "black Hat" hackers. However, you can change or spoof the MAC address in the operating system itself using a few simple tricks. > for preserved MAC case, no relevant H/W vendor is found claiming this asĪll MAC Addresses are hard-coded into a network card and can never be changed. > add that this can be a spoofed MAC (perhaps wrote this mail in sleep), as > Hi Zenner, thanks for pointing out, not sure why, but I certainly Instantiate a MAC address without setting these bits. Spoof a MAC but Ethernet drivers are not supposed to allow software to ![]() It wouldn't shock me if some hacker has found an illegitimate way to The following wiki as a decent discussion Significant bit of the most significant octet. Octet) and/or invoking a multicast MAC address by setting the least Specifically, software isĪllowed to instantiate its own MAC address but setting the locallyĪdministered bit (second least significant bit of the most significant There are a couple legitimate reasons why the first 24 bits of a MACĪddress may not match a registered vendor. I'm not sure what zenner is referring to about spoofed MAC addresses but ![]()
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