Its the need in my project for MAC authentication,I already no that its not
a good mechanism but still I have to implement it ,could you have any idea
how to implement it.



On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Robert Greenwalt <[email protected]>wrote:

> Trying to do mac based authentication where you must set the mac address
> of the clients means that only clients with easily modified mac addresses
> would work and that would kind of defeat the authentication, wouldn't it?
>
> MAC authentication is not really worth the effort:
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/19383/why-is-mac-based-authentication-insecure
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:18 PM, rakesh kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks Robert,
>>
>> But I want to apply the MAC address authentication on Hotspot, is it
>> posssible in Android.?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, September 6, 2013 9:31:17 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Greenwalt wrote:
>>
>>>  I don't think this is supported.  MAC address is not supposed to be
>>> easily/frequently changed.
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:51 PM, rakesh kumar <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I have  to configured Client  MAC address with Android WiFi Hotspot
>>>> through code.
>>>> I am able to start the Hotspot through code but not able to configure
>>>> the client MAC address with hotspot.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me to make it possible without rooting the android
>>>> devices.
>>>>
>>>> Regards ,
>>>> Rakesh
>>>>
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