Well I can think of one reason to change a mac address. A few years ago I bought 2 network cards from the same manufacturer and low and behold they had the same mac address. Rather than send them back, I just changed the mac address and everything was fine.
Second of all, ever had an ISP that gives you a modem that is progammed for a specific MAC address? (You must register your mac address with the ISP). I had the misfortune of having a network card fail at 3am in the morning (at a client site) and find out "Darn, now I have to wait till morning to regsiter the new card" - then decided I wasn;t going to wait until 8am since I had a deadline so I reprogrammed the network card with the old MAC address of the one that failed, and I was able to do work until I could phone the ISP. Lastly, changing the mac address is great if you are a software developer who wants to see the side effects of having mutiple systems with the same mac address and/or IP address. Mike On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 16:09, <> wrote: > On Wed January 1 2003 16:58, you wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > Q1: What are the pros and cons of a M.A.C. address? > > > > Far too many to list within this lifetime's amount of reading capability but > how about number one, you being able to get to the Internet. And simply > general management and order or some type without total CHAOS and nothing > working for anyone that is interconnected. > > > > > > Q2: What are the advantages and disadvantages of being able to > > > > change the MAC ? > > > > Waiting for the roof to fall in... > > > > There is no advantage that is legal and is essentially the same question as > the first. > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Michael Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CApp::Sysware Consulting Ltd.
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