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RE: Changing the mac address on Windows 2000 and XP


From: "Carl Tucker" <manuscity () hotmail com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:14:58 -0700

I use an app called Traffic IQ Pro from www.karalon.com for doing packet replay and that allows you to spoof mac addresses and ip's when traffic is being replayed. Not sure if this helps?

CT

From: "Joe Osborn" <joe.osborn () codejock com>
Reply-To: <joe.osborn () codejock com>
To: "'Pranav Lal'" <pranav.lal () gmail com>,<security-basics () securityfocus com>
Subject: RE: Changing the mac address on Windows 2000 and XP
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:37:22 -0500

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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