RE: Help please: Hardware Overview of a PC

[Joe Huber <joehuber@talasoft.com>]

At 9:16 PM -0500 10/30/08, fargo@rpgportland.com wrote:
> Uhhh... the MAC address shouldn't ever change. It isn't reliant on a
> connection at all, it's a unique hardware identifier. A device's MAC only
> changes if it's changed by some spoofing software, or in the rare case of
> a BIOS configurable onboard. What you all are describing sounds more like
> the IP address, which is totally, radically different.
EACH network interface has it's own MAC address, and so if a user 
switches from Ethernet to WiFi his computer will be using a different 
MAC address.
This is a very old discussion. MAC addresses are considered a poor 
choice for license locking.
Regards,
Joe Huber

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