| Network interace cards I used a program called tmac to change my nics mac address.
then i formatted and reinstalled and saw that it is still changed even though i installed the network driver.
how did it permanently change the value? |
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 ashrc4Premium
join:2009-02-06
australia | 4. To restore the original MAC address of the network adapter, select the adapter, click Restore Original button in the Change MAC Address frame.
Maybe it depends where your looking;
»www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html
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You sure you reformatted and reinstalled?
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How Does It Work?
This software just writes a value into the windows registry. When the Network Adapter Device is enabled, windows searches for the registry value 'NetworkAddress' in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1- 08002bE10318}\[ID of NIC e.g. 0001]. If a value is present, windows will use it as MAC address, if not, windows will use the hard coded manufacturer provided MAC address.
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| reply to sweetNoob
Yes. there was an option named "make mac address persistent" |
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| reply to sweetNoob
well all i know is im changing my nic. |
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garys_2kPremium
join:2004-05-07
Farmington, MI | reply to sweetNoob
Maybe the NIC has writable persistent memory that accepts the MAC that the OS assigns to it and makes it the default. I'm not seeing a security issue, here. |
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| Thanks for the clarification. i did not think of it that way. |
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