Spoofing a MAC addrew

[Jim Carter]

On Sat, 25 May 2002, Mr Leon G. Vandenberg wrote:
> How easy is it to spoof a different MAC address with Orinoco Gold card
> and Windows XP
> I know this is possible on Linux
> I want to prove to a corporate customer how trival this is

On the Dell TrueMobile 1150 with WinXP, the procedure was going to be:
Open Network Connections, click on the icon for your wireless net.
On the left side, "Change settings for this network".
On the General tab, it lists the card, and under it, "Configure".
On the Advanced tab, select the appropriate parameter and fill in a value.

You can also get to the card config dialog through Device Manager; right
click the line for the card and choose Properties.

But on the Dell TrueMobile 1150, which has Lucent-Agere firmware, there is
no parameter provided to show or change the MAC address.  Apparently some
drivers have it and some don't.  There's just the channel, the station
nickname, the power save mode, I think the frag threshold, and the Tx retry
count.  (That's from memory.)

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