deathagent
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I guess my queston now turns into: "How do wireless networks filter Windows' OS' and is there anyway to get around it?"
deathagent said:I guess my queston now turns into: "How do wireless networks filter Windows' OS' and is there anyway to get around it?"
deathagent said:What dyserq said sounds about right. I want to convince a network that my windows xp machine is actually an apple running a mac OS.
x0r515t said:I'm sure the network your describing is using MAC address filtering. You say your trying to connect to a wireless network of some kind, so most likely if this network really only allows certain computers to connect, the network is most likely filtering each machine by MAC address, which BTW is hardware specific not software.
MAC address filtering in wireless networks is actually more common than you would think, and certainly more secure than just encrypting your connection. Basically there is a database of allowed MACs and anything not in the database is not allowed to connect to the network.
deathagent said:So all I have to do is find out the allowed mac address(s) and then change my computer's mac address, as described in the link posted by x0r515t, to gain access to the network?
spank_fusion said:MAC addresses are the same as IP addresses in terms of OS filtering: there is none.
deathagent said:You bring up a good point. This leads me to believe that the MAC address filtering filters the MAC addresses of different types of cards, which makes more sense.