This would not be feasible as the 'roam on - roam off' nature of 802.11 means you could theoretically be creating a MAC conflict by not sticking to the original MAC address. What sort of situations does this becoe useful in anyway? I have always accepted MAC addresses as 'defacto' and tha tthey should never be changed as they are never likely to conflict.
It's useful in the situation that your Internet Service Provider registers MAC address of the first device connected to the modem, and only allows you to use this device later. As far as I know this is quite common here, in the Netherlands. I am not sure what's the purpose of it, other than maybe to prevent connecting more than one computer to the network (which is disallowed in cheaper packages). But it's a major problem even if you don't want to use it illegitimately, for example just switching the computers one by one. Yeah, in theory you can register a new device if you follow a procedure, but in my case it was lengthy (weeks!), complicated, and tiresome.
Granted, changing a MAC address is a "power user" option and for most of the people will not play a significant role. However, in my network battles I've come to rely on being able to change MAC addresses so often, that I treat it as a must now.
- "strange" DHCP implementation -- right now my Base Station just won't
get its address from the DSL modem and is effectively useless as a
router; I have one computer in between, but it's much less elegant than
it should be, and defies the whole purpose of having a Base Station in
the first place. From what I've read, it's true with more people.
As a rule I *always* statically assign my 'cornerstone' devices (ISDN router, Mac Server and 802.11 AP) a set IP address manually that ends in something that is the egining of a sequence (...)
Hmmm... For some reason this never occured to me as a solution. I suppose that might be 'cause I've never even reconfigured my DSL modem or looked at its manual. I will check it out today. Thanks!
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