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Old 17th Apr 2009, 14:51
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Saab Dastard
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But am I right in thinking that the MAC addresses shown as connected do not change?
Yes. The MAC Address is globally unique (at least in theory)* and hardware coded to the network card.

Some network cards / adapters do have the ability to be software overwritten - most notably these days in cable / adsl routers where the MAC address can be overwritten with the MAC address of the PC used to initially connect to the modem. But it's not usually an issue.

SD

* I remember receiving a batch of PCMCIA network cards (about 25 IIRC) at work about 10 years ago - and they all had the same MAC address! Caused considerable consternation and confusion!
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