[ale] MAC Addresses

[Leonard Thornton]

You could if Winblows would allow you to specify a MAC address, which I do 
not believe it allows you to do....

At 01:19 PM 9/10/2001 -0500, Jason Lynn wrote:
>I was wondering if the following is possible...
>For the sake of argument, lets assume that I only have two computers.  :)
>Computer A is my gateway / firewall and computer B is my Windows box used 
>for gaming, etc.  Computer A has two NICs, NIC1 (connected to the net), 
>NIC2 (connected to internal LAN).  Computer B has one NIC on the internal 
>LAN, NIC3.  To connect to my cable modem service, my MAC address on my 
>external NIC has to be a certain value, X.  So naturally, NIC1 has the MAC 
>Address X.  Ok, now I want to host some game server on my Windows box.  I 
>was wondering if it were possible to set NIC3's MAC to X as well so I 
>could just move my cable modem connection to NIC3 instead of NIC1.  NIC1 
>and NIC3 will never be talking directly to each other.  Would this cause 
>any conflicts / trouble?
>TIA,
>Jason
>
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