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Mac Address Changer


Rarst ran a little review of the MAC address changing software program Mac MakeUp today. If you have not checked out his website you might wanna do so as he constantly covers interesting tools and services there. Back to the software program. Mac MakeUp is a portable software for the Windows operating system that can change the Mac address of a network adapter. The Mac address can be described as a parameter that can be used to identify network adapters. You might have heard about them in the context of wireless networks and Mac address spoofing.

The Mac Address Changer might also be useful to change the Mac address regularly to avoid identification. After starting the software program it displays the connected network adapters in a pull down list on top. It provides the means to generate a new random mac address for the selected network adapter or enter one manually.

It is also possible to pick a manufacturer from another pull down list to add the manufacturers code at the beginning of the Mac address. The last six digits are 123456 which can be replaced with a combination of the user’s choosing.

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The Mac address changing software program provides access to advanced options which are available by clicking on the IP Extras Features link in the main interface.

Those are best kept alone by inexperienced users as they can cause networking problems easily if changed to the wrong or incompatible values.




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11 Responses to “Mac Address Changer”

  1. Rarst says:

    Thanks for always being supportive to my blog and sending awesome readers my way, Martin!

    ghacks seems to fancy time-proven network utilities lately, need to dig my software folder for more. :)

    • Martin says:

      Rarst yeah I like those. Post the jewels on weekends, that’s usually the time where I do not want to spend that much time researching articles. :)

  2. Rarst says:

    @Martin

    Will do. I am finishing my long process of getting design and internals workings of blog right so will have more free time and should do some guests posts for you and other friends. :)

    Nothing beats quality of traffic from fellow tech blogger.

  3. mark says:

    Good find :) Personally I find SMAC better…
    http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/

  4. Rarst says:

    @mark

    Well, shareware does tend to be better at times. :) But you know, comes with a price tag thing.

  5. Lorissa says:

    Thanks for thhis info Martin and friends :)

  6. Rarst says:

    @Lorissa

    You are welcome. :)

  7. Imran says:

    how to download it?

  8. Rarst says:

    @Imran

    Developer’s site has (naturally) download link. :) This one:
    http://www.gorlani.com/downloads/dlchk.asp?fname=macmakeup.zip

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