From: Harlan Feinstein (harlan_at_feinsteins.net)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:42:38 PST
Robert> Very odd indeed, I always thought that the MAC address was a
Robert> hardware thing, which seemed to be confirmed by the fact that
Robert> it's often on a sticker on the outside. Seems I was wrong ;-)
No, you were right. I think Nancy's mistaken. The MAC address is burned into the hardware of the network card. There are few exceptions. It may have assigned a new IP address, if the network was configured with DHCP in a typical configuration, but the MAC address should be unchanged.
--Harlan
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