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[PLUG] Why is my MAC changing?
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Ok, so I'm in Vegas for BlackHat and DEFCON, and last night I signed up
for the hotel's wired internet. Twelve bucks a day, ouch, but what can
I say, I need my fix.
So this morning I get on and I'm in the captive portal again, and it's
asking me to pay again. Not fun. I call help desk and they put me on
hold for so long that I start to fiddle around and I notice that instead
of eth0 my interface is called eth3 for some reason, and it has a MAC
address of 00:00:20:00:00:00 or something similar (I know it was zeros
with a single two somewhere in the middle of it). I've noticed before
that every time I plug and unplug the cable the interface name changes,
but now it seems that after a while it also starts giving me the wrong
MAC. What is doing this? Is it the kernel module? I'm running Ubuntu
EEE 8.04.3, and I seem to remember it has a kernel transplanted from the
factory Xandros to get wireless working. Or is NetworkManager
responsible? How can I fix this? I installed macchanger, so I can
probably just keep changing the MAC back in software, but that will get
annoying quick.
--Gordon
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