MAC address
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Contrary to popular belief among macfags, a "MAC address" has nothing to do with the shiny white plastic bricks that you see everywhere nowadays. It stands for "Media Access Control address" and is a unique identifier associated with a network adapter. More importantly, it can be spoofed for convenience, fun and profit.
The IEEE 802 MAC address was originally created by a Scotchman, named Conchar McAddress. He implemented it in the original Xerox Ethernet addressing scheme. Because of him, this 48-bit address space contains potentially 248 or 281,474,976,710,656 possible MAC addresses.
On-campus networks (i.e. residence halls/dorms or shared units in college) and some other private networks, track bandwidth usage not by IP address, but by MAC address. On campuses, these limits are typically between 1gb and 6gb a day (for off-campus traffic, U/D combined). By spoofing your MAC address, it resets your bandwidth total and you gain instant respect within the haxoring community, the equivalent of taking CS III (and passing with a C++ or better).
If you have a PC and you're too afraid of the terrifying black screen with white text or just too fucking lazy to take 10 minutes to learn how to use it, grab one of the MAC spoofers at the bottom. If you have Linux: ifconfig <interface> hw <class> <address>.
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If you spoof too often you will eventually catch the attention of your school's IT staff. If the techfags send you a formal email about bandwidth abuse, they know exactly what you're doing, although they will rarely state it outright. School's usually have the policy of never directly accusing a student of stealing bandwidth, so they will probably ask you something innocent like why you have 6-7 computers in the same room. Don't fuck it up by spoofing more than 3 times a day, dipshit, or you could end up losing your internets or even booted from res.
See Also
External Links
- SMAC 2.0 - The easiest way to spoof MAC addy's (hit Random, then Update MAC, done) - Vistafags will need to restart.
- Another spoofer - PC only
- Yet another spoofer - A GNU solution for a GNU/Linux system.
- Holy shit! A spoofer for Macfags?! - ZOMG click nao!
