| reply to Bill_MI
Re: MAC Cloning on the LinkSys Router Hi Bill_Mi
thank you for the info. I have one of those evil isp's too. With the Linksys router sharing a connection has been made very easy.  Yeah calling in the Mac address of the Linky would be great but as you said there have been incidents where they refused to change that address.
I hope those evil isp's will not start to sue Linksys for making Mac address cloning available in their firmware.
BD
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| Question: Is there something wrong with my computer if the MAC address of the card is show wrong in Windows? Windows reports the wrong MAC while the router and the card's diagnostic shows the right one. Which one should I enter in the MAC cloning, the right one or the Windows one? |
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| said by JrC384k:
Question: Is there something wrong with my computer if the MAC address of the card is show wrong in Windows?
Good question. Here's a different way to tell the MAC of computers on your LAN...
From another computer ping the computer by IP address then use the command:
arp -a
It'll print the table of internet/physical addresses. Unfortunately it does NOT include the PC you're on.
Gee, either that or twice beats once?
EDIT: Jr, in WinIPCfg is the correct LAN card showing in that pull-down menu? If not, does selecting the LAN card make the MAC read correctly?
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| reply to buonadomenic
said by buonadomenica:
I hope those evil isp's will not start to sue Linksys for making Mac address cloning available in their firmware.
Hi BD. I don't think that will happen but instead, this idea of controlling customer LANs simply isn't feasible anymore. I think you'll see these systems going away (I hope). Now, their scare tactic is "we don't support you if you have a network". For such bullroar be sure you can hook up 1 PC before you even call in a problem so their little tactic doesn't work.
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