On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, David Chen wrote:
> How do you spoof MAC addresses? I thought they were hard-coded
> in the ethernet hardware/firmware. Why would any ethernet card maker
> let anyone easily write into ethernet firmware? Doesn't that defeat
> the whole idea of ethernet addresses being unique?
something along the lines of
ifconfig eth0 hw de:ad:be:ef
Almost all cards allow you to change the hwaddr from software. The few
that don't still allow you to generate raw packets and listen promisc
(same effect but performance impact)..
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