Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6:22:27 PM, James wrote: > Sergey A. Kobzar <sergey.kobzar <at> mail.ru> writes:
>> LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard: >> How is it possible? > Often the MAC is printed on the nic. Some (few) devices > have MAC set in firmware and it is hackable. > MAC numbering is often suspect in a variety of > circumstances. My suggestion is that > you surf the open source tools to find something > that reveals deeper information about your MAC > anomalies. Lots of stuff in: > /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ > Here's one: > net-analyzer/macchanger > Description: Utility for viewing/manipulating > the MAC address of network interfaces James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6e (Intel Corporate) # macchanger eth0 Current MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c (Intel Corporate) Faked MAC: 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d (Intel Corporate) How is it possible? I thought NIC has one MAC only.What does mean 'Faked MAC'? > goodluck, > James -- Sergey
