J3bu Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 In my flat the internet is locked to my mac address which is pants as it's going into my desktop and I want to use my laptop in the kitchen via wifi. Any ideas on how I could find my way around this? I've given it a bit of thought and as i'm not really a network guy they're fairly low tech...like a wifi dongle in the desktop. Any ideas guys? cheers in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 mac address spoofing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3bu Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 cheers for the speedy reply Sparda. I'll look into spoofing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 most wifi routers have mac address spoofing built in, its usually called mac address cloning heres a tutorial for exactly what your looking for http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,717381 assuming your using a linksys router, but most routers have those features too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 That only does the WAN interface of the router though, which won't help here. To get around this you would simply need to change the MAC address of the laptops wireless adapter to the MAC address of the authorized computer. Then you should be freely able to alternate between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addis0n Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 VaKo he wouldnt have to switch between the two if the router runs nat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 No, if he had a spare router the conversation would be moot. I take it he doesn't, so he's simply looking to make the kit he has do what he wants. There are always better solutions to hacks but some times you just need to do something quickly. If this is one of those times, do what I suggested, if you want a nicer solution then get some additional hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3bu Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Cheers guys! Figured it out how to spoof it in the end and now the network is nice and busy with the traffic of many many terminals! Thanks again! j3bu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Even though this has been sorted, Would like to point out that mac spoofing is a standard feature with any Linux OS. http://whoozoo.co.uk/mac-spoof-linux.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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