Yeah. I'd be thinking it's a debugging thing. Use SpoofMAC or if you
prefer to go manually, http://www.suspekt.org/airport-static.html.
There was a method to allow the MAC to be changed from ifconfig,
http://www.suspekt.org/airport-dynamic.html, but it hasn't been
updated for Tiger, and is essentially useless for the reasons we want
it for - it leaks the original MAC in the DHCP requests - breaking
DHCP, and giving away our real MAC address.
That tool is an interesting one, it was previously run by KisMac to
change the channel in passive mode, until I rewrote that part of code
to use ioctls instead - much less CPU usage - (actually, it halved
the total cpu of kismac!).
On 08/06/2006, at 8:38 PM, Thomas Kollbach wrote:
On 08.06.2006 at 12:58 numE wrote:
i just found this tool:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/ Resources/airport
AirPort v.423.1 (423.1.0)
The help (switch -h) shows that there is a "-m" or "--mac=" switch.
-- -m<arg> --mac=<arg> use <arg> instead of current AirPort MAC Address --
I tried it, but it had no effect.
quite weird - why should the apple dev's put this feature into their framework, when it's a) not intended to be possible?! b) not working?!
Maybe it is either a debugging/developing feature that gets deactivated before shipping the framework or it is indeed referencing to the mac of the base-sation. But that is just guessing.
A tool that does change (read spoof) your airport mac address (through temporarily patching binary files...) is SpoofMAC (http:// ungeord.net/smat/en/spoofmac/).
toto
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