MAC address

[Steve Holden]

Ajay wrote:
> Quoting Heiko Wundram <heikowu at ceosg.de>:
> 
> 
[...changing MAC address under Linux ...]>
> 
> thanks
> 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
> 
You do understand, I presume, that your MAC address never travels off 
your LAN anyway? When packets are routed to other networks they will be 
encapsulated by other devices, so while the IP (network-layer) 
addressing remains the same over all hops, the originating device's MAC 
address is removed the first time the packet is routed.

regards
  Steve