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Old 04-26-2004
PenguinDevil PenguinDevil is offline
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thanks , never noticed the MAC was under ether in my "ifconfig" in wireless, got it to change. All I need to know now is if my computer will broadcast a changed MAC after I have already connected to the network using the original MAC, i.e. will it ask for a new IP as that previous IP is assigned to the original MAC on the network, or will I just get dissconected

PS:
command to change ur MAC in FreeBSD is
'ifconfig <interface> link <address>'
Make sure the address u specify follows the standard format for MAC addresses, i.e. xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc, .... (took me 2 hrs to figure that out .... damn it)...oh and I dont know if u should really change the first 4 parameters of the MAC, because they might be assigned to the company that ur computer belongs to...still not sure... will try and tell you guys later;

Peace