Re: Help! My MAC address seems to spontaneously change.

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From: Arkady Frenkel (arkadyf_at_hotmailxdotxcom)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:07:30 +0200

NIC have two MACs : permanent ( burnt address - can't be changed ) and
software ( current ) on start it the same as permanent, it can be changed by
OID sending to miniport by WMI e.g.

Arkady

"Marc Reinig" <Marco@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:uHHb68o8EHA.3012@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 02:0f:1f:70:ed:81 was the original address
>
> then it changed to
>
> f2:d7:39:9e:87:8b
>
> then back to
>
> 02:0F:1F:70:ED:81
>
> Then it changed again to
>
> 00:0F:1F:70:ED:81
>
> Then back to
>
> 02:0F:1F:70:ED:81
>
>
> Any idea what is going on, or where I should look? I had some system
> crashes recently and had to revert to a previous restore point. But I
have
> never changed the MAC.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marco
> ________________________
> Marc Reinig
> UCO/Lick Observatory
> Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
>
>

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