From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 20:05:13 PST
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 07:00 AM, Harlan Feinstein wrote:
> Nancy> I am not mistaken!
>
> Nancy> In the MAC Hardware section of our Asante Router the Proxim
> Nancy> 802.11 PC card shows up with a MAC address of 0000C509A220
> when
> Nancy> used with the 3400 laptop, and 0050E4C5DA12 when used with the
> Nancy> Newton.
>
> Hmmm, I just don't get it, why it would even have two different vendor
> codes on there. Maybe it's a bug on the network drivers for one of
> the machines.
>
> Apologies for pronouncing you mistaken, Nancy.
Because under certain OS's you CAN reassign a new MAC address to a
piece of hardware
OS 9 had this hidden ability
OS X can do it as well
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