MAC address

[Ajay]

Quoting Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>:

> On 2004-09-20, Ajay <abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> > Quoting Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>:
> >
> >> On 2004-09-20, Ajay <abra9823 at mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> >>
> >> > its actually windows that i would like to find out about. what
> >> > i am trying to do is to anonymize client address by picking a
> >> > random MAC address and using that instead
> >>
> >> That's a pretty bad idea.  If you insist on doing it, read the
> >> Ethernet spec so you make sure you're picking a valid address.
> >
> > and why is it a bad idea?
>
> How are you going to avoid collisions?  I suppose it's a
> sufficiently slim probability you can just ignore it.
>
> > also, is there an alternative way to anonymize a client?
>
> Not really, but how could your MAC address be traced to you,
> anyway?

i suppose i should clarify again that the question is not in the context of
the Internet but a wireless LAN.
within a LAN, if i were to open a socket connection with a server and send
some data to it, the server would be able to pick up my MAC and IP
address.
so what i want to do is to anonymize the MAC by picking a random (but
valid) MAC address and using that. after that i will anonymize the IP.


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