On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> > > > protection against it. The code to do it under Linux exists,
> > > > but people are almost always wrong in their desire to do this.
>
> Donald: Maybe you could tell me why I could be wrong with my desire to
> change the NICs MAC? Yes, I know, one MAC should exist only once in the
> world, if you mean that.
>
> The problem I have is the following: one of our customers has two
> 10/100 MBit VG/Anylan-NICs in his Network. Now he has to change these
> NICs because lacking drivers for this cards. No problem that far, but
> one of his programs (CAD-software) is somehow dongled with the NICs
> MAC.
Errrkkk. Evil software vendor. But this counts as a reason, even if it
doesn't have anything to do with Linux.
Any decent DOS game cracker has a packet driver to fake out the "dongle".
Many of my diag programs already have the MAC address modification code, but
this is permanent, dangerous change so you'll have to *read* the
documentation carefully to learn how to do this.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html
or
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
[[ IMNSHO, *every* hardware device driver should have a matching diag
program. Once again, I'm clearly in the minority. ]]
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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