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- Video: How to spoof a MAC address
- MAC address filtering is often used to secure older wireless equipment. Is this technique effective? In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you just how easy it is to spoof a MAC address and why MAC address filtering might not even keep out the "slacker hackers." by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, Video, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- IT Dojo: How to spoof a MAC address
- When you support small offices, home offices, and remote offices, you often run across older wireless equipment. Equipment that's likely secured with MAC filtering and perhaps a hidden SSID and WEP encryption.Most techs would agree that MAC filtering alone isn't going to secure a wireless network and that even WEP...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., MAC, Information Technology, it dojo, bill detwiler, microsoft windows, security, wi-fi, wireless, wep, mac address, ssid, spoofing
- Videos 2008-07-14
- MAC address scorecard for common virtual machine platforms
- At some point in the course of being a network admin, you have had to track down a virtual machine on the network. This task can be complicated, as clients may legitimately be running a virtualization platform on their client systems. Knowing what platform a MAC address relates to may...
- Tags: MAC, Network, MAC Address, Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Rick Vanover
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Quickly gather MAC addresses in Windows XP with ARP
- When securing a wireless Windows XP network, in addition to using Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP or Wi-Fi Protected Access WPA encryption, you can use Media Access Control MAC address filtering. When you enable MAC address filtering, the wireless access point or wireless router verifies that the network...
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, Computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Productivity, Wireless, Operating Systems, Software, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Colasoft MAC Scanner Pro (exe)
- Colasoft MAC Scanner is a scan tool for scanning IP address and MAC address. It can automatically detect all subnets according to the IP addresses configured on multiple NICs of a machine and scan the MAC addresses and IP addresses of defined subnets as your need. This version is the...
- Tags: MAC, IP, MAC Address, IP Address, Subnet, Colasoft, Colasoft MAC Scanner, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-05-30
- Find MAC Address (exe)
- Find MAC Address is a tool for finding the MAC addresses of computers on the network. With Find MAC Address, you can find the MAC address of your or remote computer and also of any computer within the specified range of IP addresses. Unlike similar software, Find MAC Address can...
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, Computer, Lizard Systems, Find MAC Address, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- SMAC MAC Address Changer (exe)
- SMAC is Made In USA. SMAC is a powerful, yet easy to use MAC address changer for Windows systems, regardless of whether the manufacturers allow this option or not. The new MAC addresses you change will sustain from reboots. Features: change MAC address in 3 clicks, validate MAC address, generate...
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, SMAC
- Software downloads 2008-02-08
- How to spoof a MAC address
- MAC address filtering for wireless networking isn't real "security". Anyone who pays any attention to current trends in wireless security at all should know that MAC filtering is less effective than WEP -- and that WEP can be cracked almost instantly these days with commonly available tools. ...
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- SolutionBase: Administer PacketFence with ease via Web interface
- PacketFence is fairly demanding to install, but once you get into the administration of the system via the Web-based administration tool, things become a whole lot easier. Jack Wallen guides you through installation of the tool. PacketFence is one of the most difficult systems I've installed, while...
- Tags: PacketFence, Web, Solution, MAC, Network, Administration, Problem, Dashboard, IP, Server, MAC Address, IP Address, Information, Executable, Location, Machine, Configuration Sub-tab, Networking, Jack Wallen
- Technical articles 2007-12-21
- ARPmyNET (exe)
- ARPmyNET retrieves the MAC addresses of all networking equpiment on your subnet, and matches them against an OUI file. The result is a list of IP addresses with the corresponding MAC address and the IEEE register company for the MAC addresses. IP limitation ARPmyNET only works with IPv4 C-class IP...
- Tags: MAC, MAC Address, ARPmyNET, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-12-10
- How to determine what device is on what port on your Cisco switch
- Your network grinds to a screeching halt. All the switch port lights are solid, and your only theory is that the network is under attack. What do you do? The first step is to fire up your network protocol analyzer and capture data off of the core switch. From...
- Tags: MAC, Network, PC, MAC Address, Cisco Systems Inc., ManageEngine, SolarWinds, Networking, David Davis
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- How to authenticate based on MAC address.
- I have around 3000 desktops/laptops are on the network. while enabling security got strucked @ enabling MAC address security on perticular switch portand can not use same system in any place in my network. I am looking for a solution where I can maintain a server with MAC...
- Tags: sridhara.gupta@..., MAC address, MAC, network
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- DLink Switch Not Showing MAC Address
- I received this email upon coming into work this morning:Josh, See if you can determine why we don’t see a MAC address in the D-Link 1224-TS Gb switch for some ports that have a NIC plugged into the port. We were looking a MAC addresses under...
- Tags: joshrhoden@..., MAC address, MAC
- Discussion threads 2007-10-16
- Lock down Cisco switch port security
- A growing challenge facing network administrators is determining how to control who can access the organization's internal network -- and who can't. For example, can anyone walk into your office, plug in a laptop, and access your network? You might argue that the wall jack has no connection to a...
- Tags: MAC, Port, MAC Address, Cisco Systems Inc., Switch, Security, David Davis
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- IP Allocation based on MAC address range
- I need DHCP to allocate IP addresses from a range to devices based on a MAC address prefix. Is there any way of doing this?re: IP AllocationWhat are you using for DHCP? A router? A computer? If so, what OS. Sorry, can't help you with the...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, cmurphy@..., IP allocation, IP, MAC address, allocation, MAC
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- DHCP lease map to mac address
- Hi,In current DHCP server, many times a single host is assigned more than one active IP addresses against its MAC address, and this causes the DHCP Scope to get full. By observation we found that, in lease file everytime the UID from the same host changes and thus it is...
- Tags: NETWORKING, shashi_comp@..., DHCP, MAC address, IP, UID, IP address, MAC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- Symantec GSS 2.0 and MAC addresses
- We have installed Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 on our server, but are having an issue where the clients are showing up as MAC addresses in the console... not computer names. Tech support had me run a configuration refresh, but that doesn't help. Some computers with exact same hardware show...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Danamaja, computer name, computer, registry entry, MAC, console, MAC address, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- CallWave Text Messaging Widget (zip)
- Free unlimited Text Messaging to any US mobile number. Integrates with Mac Address Book. Simply type your message in the widget, select a name or phone number and hit send. The widget figures out the carrier. Versioin 3.7 adds full integration with Mac Address Book.
- Tags: MAC Address, CallWave Inc., Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-09-21
- Gathering MAC addresses from a group of print queues
- Is there a way to get all the MAC addresses off the printers on my network? Or possibly just the printers on a specific Win2003 server?Easiest wayPrint printer config.arp -a ip_addressThat's itYou could put all of the ip addresses in a text file - each on a separate line -...
- Tags: Printers, cwilson5@..., printer, arp, MAC address
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- mac address on a cisco 871
- Hi.i just bought a cisco 871W, because i wanted to play with something along with my ccna studies BUT.i got a ISP who has been given me a cable modem, and is giving me a specific ip address via DHCP, my problem is now, how do i see which MAC...
- Tags: Modems, Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, NETWORKING, Cable, Cisco Systems Inc., msn@..., MAC address, IP, IP address, modem, Internet Service Provider, MAC, router
- Discussion threads 2007-09-16
