From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LzYJ9-0006L5-VI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:36:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B97D8E034B; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx34.mail.ru (mx34.mail.ru [94.100.176.48]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AD0E034B for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [92.113.185.152] (port=7699 helo=localhost) by mx34.mail.ru with asmtp id 1LzYJ7-0009qv-00 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:17 +0400 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:36:19 +0300 From: "Sergey A. Kobzar" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v4.0.24) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1259882194.20090430183619@mail.ru> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses In-Reply-To: References: <1524077836.20090430180955@mail.ru> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam: Not detected X-Mras: Ok X-Archives-Salt: 961bf3c0-fc73-44f8-9d7d-f0a33de3c24f X-Archives-Hash: 72c7c9e6b4283b1d9a03af62387dc482 Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:22:27 PM, James wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar mail.ru> writes: >> LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: >> How is it possible? > Often the MAC is printed on the nic. Some (few) devices > have MAC set in firmware and it is hackable.=20 > MAC numbering is often suspect in a variety of > circumstances. My suggestion is that > you surf the open source tools to find something > that reveals deeper information about your MAC > anomalies. Lots of stuff in: > /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ > Here's one: > net-analyzer/macchanger > Description: Utility for viewing/manipulating=20 > the MAC address of network interfaces James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) # macchanger eth0 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) How is it possible? I thought NIC has one MAC only.What does mean 'Faked MAC'? > goodluck, > James --=20 Sergey