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to: Don Hills
from: Geo
date: 2005-08-24 20:18:36
subject: Re: In the age of cheap disposable h/w.....

From: "Geo" 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> Last time I looked (a couple of years ago), many/most Ethernet adapters
> allowed setting a unique MAC address provided that the driver supported
it.

Actually I believe it's called cloning the Mac address, it's not quite the
same thing but close enough I guess.

> One problem we had porting from OS/2 to Win 2K was that the Windows
drivers
> for the (integrated) adapters we were using didn't allow setting the MAC
> address... (we had host connectivity using IEEE 802.2 protocol, with a MAC
> to LU mapping scheme.) I suspect the function was there in the OS/2
drivers
> because IBM required it to be, as the bigest users of IEEE 802.2 (a
protocol
> used for SNA connectivity).

go to google and search on "changing Mac address" without the
quotes, the top hit is my site  and a stolen page that tells you
how to do it via one of two different methods. The second one is a bit more
involved (for cards that don't support cloning) but works..

Geo.

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