Re: IP to MAC translation

[Alan Cox]

> 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?

All ethernet cards I know of let the user pick arbitary MAC addresses. Even
if they didnt you coudl fake it using promisc mode.


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