Re: Microsoft and MACs

["Paul Rickard" <boycott@usa.net>]

From:           	"Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>

> This is not correct.

	You'll note in my posting that I said "every modern network card," 
not "every network card ever shipped." Modern cards have a preset, 
unchangable (unless you want to get into Flash ROM and things like 
that) MAC address. I'm not referring to Tokenring or the 1981-era card 
you bought at a place that sold hardware and fish bait.

> For example, Apple Computer used to distributed an unsupported 
> program called "Apple LAN Utility" which could be used to change the
> MAC address sent out by the machine on its ethernet  
> packets.

	Again, notice the "used to" in your own statement.

If anyone else on this list knows of a modern widely-used type of NIC 
that has configurable MAC addresses, post it here and I will stand 
corrected. Otherwise, I'm sticking to what I said earlier.



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