On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Jeremy Weatherford wrote:
> Having the ability to pick your MAC address on a local LAN would cause the
> same problems as putting your card into promiscuous mode -- you could
> intercept traffic intended for other machines. I really don't see this as
> being likely.
I'm not quite familiar with the details, but isn't this very much needed
functionality to put up working 'backup' servers to take over all of a
high-priority server's tasks when it goes down? [setting MAC's]
This is one of the reasons people should not use MAC-addresses as a way
of fool-proof box/card-identification, especially when it comes to copy-
protecting software or trusting the source.
Most NICs do allow it being altered (I'm not familiar with the one
mentioned in the earlier posting, though).
AFAIR usually the command is ~
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01
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> Jeremy Weatherford
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