From: James Stull <rivitir@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:27:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1dd97640904300927q23554111p386fdc76137dad69@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F9C7D6.8030704@gmail.com>
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You can actually change your MAC address using ifconfig for many types of
NIC's.
--James
2009/4/30 Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com>
> Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> > Sergey A. Kobzar wrote:
> >
> >> 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'?
> >>
> >>
> > Current MAC = MAC in firmware on the card, Faked MAC = MAC the OS is
> > telling the network?
> >
> >
> >
> yes, you can set the mac to what ever you want. There's a line in
> /etc/conf.d/net that explains how to do this (with macchanger).
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-30 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 15:09 [gentoo-user] MAC addresses Sergey A. Kobzar
2009-04-30 15:22 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2009-04-30 15:36 ` Sergey A. Kobzar
2009-04-30 15:40 ` Anthony Metcalf
2009-04-30 15:46 ` Eric Martin
2009-04-30 16:27 ` James Stull [this message]
2009-04-30 17:36 ` Re[2]: " Sergey A. Kobzar
2009-04-30 19:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Troeder
2009-04-30 19:48 ` Re[2]: " Sergey A. Kobzar
2009-05-08 12:22 ` Re[3]: " Sergey A. Kobzar
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