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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by executesorder66 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:23AM (#10189842)
> changing the mac address

As far as I am aware, the mac address is burned onto the hardware by the manufacturers, and there is no way of changing it. (Unless you are using a VM and you can give it any mac address you want)

How did you change the mac address?

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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by gt565k on Friday September 18, 2015 @12:20PM (#10240064)
You change the mac address of the router, since it's connected to the modem, and you're not running a direct wire from your pc to the modem, in that case, you'd have to change the mac address of your pc.

ISPs assign IP addresses based on the MAC ADDRESS of the device connected to the modem.

You're spoofing the MAC ADDRESS, not changing the actual address of the hardware device.

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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by eru on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:53AM (#10189937)
On Linux you can change the mac address quite easily with most network cards.

A quick websearch indicates that even on Windows it's not a problem.

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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by executesorder66 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @05:30AM (#10190511)
A quick web search [0] indicates that it cannot be changed but only spoofed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing

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Re:An Oral History of Diablo II by SixSigma on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @08:20AM (#10190946)
Logically, that's the same. The chosen MAC is sent to your next hop and that's that.

Some devices store the MAC in some sort of writable NVRAM.

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