psydT0ne Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Hi All, I purchased a digitech usb to ethernet adapter to provides some network connectivity to a tablet device. All works ok. Funny thing is the MAC for the ethernet device part of the adapter seems to change every time i power cycle the tablet. Without getting too far into things, can anyone explain this...I'm trying to get my head around it... I would have thought that the MAC for the ethernet wouldn't change... Weird huh,, or am i missing something very obvious here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 9, 2013 Share Posted May 9, 2013 (edited) Not sure. I've got a USB to Ethernet cable laying around I picked up somehwere, but never actually tried to use it. I think it came with one of my first modems I bought becuase it had USB connectivity, but who wants to go straight to the lan side of the modem to a USB port on a PC. Think this was from win98 days. Its not a device though, mine is just an ethernet on one site with USB that plugs into a PC on the other end. Not even sure how it works or it the PC automatically recognizes it as a nic in any way shape or form...might just dig it out and see what the hell it does. Can you link to the one you have though? Brand of cable/device? Might shed some light on the issue, find a manual online for the thing if it didn't come with one. Only thing I can think is tablets normally use wireless, and have their own mac address. Being that you are using USB, the device now has a "new" nic, or ethernet connection, so it might be trying to auto configure a mac in order to get online or connect witht he router or whatever you plug into. Check the package for the manual, in case it came with one though. Edited May 9, 2013 by digip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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