paulmasoner
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My current location has only one internet option. MAC filtered wireless. I have been playing with MAC cloning/spoofing in order to have the option of getting online with my laptop or desktop(and soon the PS3)
For now lets assume that MAC spoofing is my ONLY option. Later i may address using shared connection.
I currently have my Vista laptop's MAC registered with the ISP, it was easy enough to set the locally admistered address on my XP desktop, which worked. Just to test, i also manually edited the registry values on the XP machine and it also worked wonderfully.
The next step was to clone my PS3's to my laptop and then update/register the new MAC so that i could get online with the PS3 as well as the laptop. I REALLY have no desire to install Linux on the PS3 and try to spoof its MAC.
So that leaves me with spoofing the MAC belonging to my laptop's NIC. I tried multiple ways. This NIC has no option to set local administered addy.
-I first tried editing the registry values: This appears to have worked as after a reboot or disable/enable, the registry shows the newly assigned "NetworkAddress" string. But a getmac or ipconfig /all command still shows the original MAC.
-I also tried a few of the common softwares;MacMakeup, SMAC, EtherChange, MadMac etc... all had the same result as above
The only reference i could find to having issues spoofing my NIC in Vista was due to driver issues which once updated, fixed the spoofing probs. I verified that i am updated and even tried some of the older drivers.
My NIC is a Marvell TopDog 802.11n (EC85) IIRC.....
Anyone have ANY ideas? Again, whether changing the registry manually or using a nice GUI application i get the same result - Registry string shows my newly assigned value, ipconfig or similar commands show the MAC has NOT changed. I verified the MAC hasnt changed as i was still able to get through to filters to the web......(which i can only do with my currently registered MAC)
My understanding is that windows uses the NIC's hardcoded(?) MAC unless there is a value in that string in the registry, in which case it uses the registry defined value. I have not found anything to say Vista is different, but it doesnt seem to work. I'm thinking i need to "tell" windows to look for and use the value in the registry string....?
For now lets assume that MAC spoofing is my ONLY option. Later i may address using shared connection.
I currently have my Vista laptop's MAC registered with the ISP, it was easy enough to set the locally admistered address on my XP desktop, which worked. Just to test, i also manually edited the registry values on the XP machine and it also worked wonderfully.
The next step was to clone my PS3's to my laptop and then update/register the new MAC so that i could get online with the PS3 as well as the laptop. I REALLY have no desire to install Linux on the PS3 and try to spoof its MAC.
So that leaves me with spoofing the MAC belonging to my laptop's NIC. I tried multiple ways. This NIC has no option to set local administered addy.
-I first tried editing the registry values: This appears to have worked as after a reboot or disable/enable, the registry shows the newly assigned "NetworkAddress" string. But a getmac or ipconfig /all command still shows the original MAC.
-I also tried a few of the common softwares;MacMakeup, SMAC, EtherChange, MadMac etc... all had the same result as above
The only reference i could find to having issues spoofing my NIC in Vista was due to driver issues which once updated, fixed the spoofing probs. I verified that i am updated and even tried some of the older drivers.
My NIC is a Marvell TopDog 802.11n (EC85) IIRC.....
Anyone have ANY ideas? Again, whether changing the registry manually or using a nice GUI application i get the same result - Registry string shows my newly assigned value, ipconfig or similar commands show the MAC has NOT changed. I verified the MAC hasnt changed as i was still able to get through to filters to the web......(which i can only do with my currently registered MAC)
My understanding is that windows uses the NIC's hardcoded(?) MAC unless there is a value in that string in the registry, in which case it uses the registry defined value. I have not found anything to say Vista is different, but it doesnt seem to work. I'm thinking i need to "tell" windows to look for and use the value in the registry string....?
