changing MAC addresses ?

[Thomas]

Is there any settings available in win2k which will return
a different MAC address than the actual MAC address of the
NIC?

My application is written to a fixed MAC address and the
NIC is integrated on the motherboard. The motherboard is
broken.........

/Thomas

 

[rob]

Now that's what I call copyright protection!
What does the App programmer say?
Surely they have anticipated this eventuality?

 

[M]

The easiest option is to change the MAC of the NIC, via the registry, to
match the MAC of the old NIC. This is actually a WHQL requirement for a
driver to support this.

The docs for NdisReadNetworkAddress() adequately describes how to make the
registry change, so I won't do it here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/network/hh/network/103ndisx_5e9f.asp

Have you contact the app vendor?
If you are migrating the app between servers and not trying to run this app
on two machines at the same time, you can take the NIC out of the first
machine and add it to the second machine.
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[Thoms]

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
The easiest option is to change the MAC of the NIC, via the registry, to
match the MAC of the old NIC. This is actually a WHQL requirement for a
driver to support this.

The docs for NdisReadNetworkAddress() adequately describes how to make the
registry change, so I won't do it here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en- us/network/hh/network/103ndisx_5e9f.asp

Have you contact the app vendor?
If you are migrating the app between servers and not

trying to run this
app

on two machines at the same time, you can take the NIC out of the first
machine and add it to the second machine.
----
Thanks,
Rakesh Chanana [MSFT]

When replying, please post to GROUP so that everyone can benefit from the
knowledge.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,

and confers no
rights.

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