Re: Changing the mac address on Windows 2000 and XP

["Anish Shaikh" <anishshaikh () gmail com>]

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Yes, MAC addresses can be easily changed, not only in 2000 and Xp but
also on Win 9x and Nix's.
As per your 2000 and XP needs this will help you,
http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/ , one basic idea is dhcp uses MAC
address to differentiate between computers and same mac will create
conflicts which means only one of your system will work and other
will not. if want to know a bit more about MAC Addresses i written
this article quite sometime back but it still rocks.. you can have a
look at it, it provides the Funda of MAC Addresses.
http://dotaniz.blogspot.com/2005/05/inside-out-of-mac-addresses.html

Regards,
Anish Shaikh


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From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav.lal () gmail com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: Changing the mac address on Windows 2000 and XP


> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to change the mac address of a LAN card in Windows
>  2000 and Windows XP?
>
> As a corollary to the question, how would one detect if a computer 
> was changing its mac address? This is assuming that the network on 
> which this machine is connected has DHCP enabled.
>
> Pranav
>
>
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