-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-01-10 at 14:43 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
This does _not_ change the embedded MAC address as it _cannot_ be permanently changed. This is so there never is a duplicate on the WWW. What you are doing is masquerading the address during your boot session.
It doesn't matter about the WWW. It only matters on the local network. As soon as a packet hits the first router, the original MAC is discarded and replaced by another. This happens at every router along the route.
While that is true, ethernet was designed to work without tcp/ip routers, in a way that no two cards in the world have the same MAC, so that all can be connected to the same ethernet network - as far as MACs are concerned, of course. If I remember correctly, a part of the address is reserved for the maker, and the rest for the card - thus the maker can make only so many cards in its whole life. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFpVDftTMYHG2NR9URAlHBAJ0R11Od/3w3t+3agcPi+9jWascnKQCeJj+W eBCkO9uz0K45txCBGcWTvAY= =I6bZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org