Re: Changing the mac address on Windows 2000 and XP

["Kelly D. Lucas" <lucaskeli () fastmail fm>]

Actually most vendors of hardware have some sort of utility that 
interfaces with a firmware API, that can indeed change the MAC address. 
This is independent of the platform, as generally firmware will hold the 
MAC address.

kdl

Joe Osborn wrote:

> Not possible to change the MAC Address of a network device to my knowledge.
> They are coded into the firmware of the device itself and assigned by the
> manufacturer.  You can always put a second NIC in the machine and Nat thru
> it so it appears to come from a different NIC because in fact it would be.
> Does this help?
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pranav Lal [mailto:pranav.lal () gmail com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 11:26 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> 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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Kelly D. Lucas
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