Welcome to the Toshiba Support Forum, created for customers and enthusiasts to share knowledge, solve problems and discuss technology. To join the discussion, please login or register.
Thread:
Satellite L750D - MAC address changing by itself
Search Forum Boards
advanced searchadvanced search user searchuser search
Forum Content Key
Unread Indicates new content items added
Updated Indicates content items updated
Read Indicates content items read
This question is not answered. Helpful answers available: 2. Correct answers available: 1.


Permlink Replies: 1 - Pages: 1 - Last Post: 29-Aug-2012 10:58 Last Post By: JoeLouis
jonathans

Posts: 8
Registered: 17/08/11
Satellite L750D - MAC address changing by itself
Posted: 28-Aug-2012 15:06
 
  Click to reply to this thread Reply
Satellite L750D/L755D 18mths old.
Restarted this morning after weekend and wired NIC MAC address has chnaged.

Booted into windows and could see a value which was different to Friday ( as we control access to switch by MAC address, and was being blocked).
Booted into normal Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) and a different MAC address again.

NIC seems to be working fine with whatever it chooses - but how can MAC address be changing by itself?
JoeLouis

Posts: 591
Registered: 21/08/12
Re: Satellite L750D - MAC address changing by itself
Posted: 29-Aug-2012 10:58   in response to: jonathans in response to: jonathans
 
  Click to reply to this thread Reply
NIC seems to be working fine with whatever it chooses - but how can MAC address be changing by itself?

The physical MAC address is not changeable but there are some methods to spoof the mac address…
For example using Windows XP, the MAC address can be changed in the Properties of the Ethernet adapter. In the Advanced tab, as "MAC Address", "Locally Administered Address", "Ethernet Address" or "Network Address". The name of such option depends on the Lan driver which is installed on your notebook. And important note; not all drivers support changing the MAC address in this way.

Furthermore the system registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} contains some settings for network interface and the option called “NetworkAddress” will be used to set the MAC address.

There are also some tools which would spoof the MAC address for example, SMAC MAC Address Changer.
Last but not least some routers provide a option to change the MAC address.
Legend
Master: 700 + pts
Scholar: 300 - 699 pts
Aficionado: 150 - 299 pts
Enthusiast: 50 - 149 pts
Beginner: 0 - 49 pts
Helpful Answer (5 pts)
Correct Answer (10 pts)

Point your RSS reader here for a feed of the latest messages in all forums


Copyright © 1995-2011 TOSHIBA Corporation, All Rights Reserved
Powered by Jive Software