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A MAC address is the physical address of the layer two medium, and in general will remain with the hardware it is allocated to - in a physical nic, it resides in the firmware or flash on the nic. MAC addresses can be spoofed such as with macchanger on linux so as usual, nothing is concrete.
Oct 30, 2018 · Windows server 2016, 2 NIC ports, teamed with Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver, no VMs, no VPNs, no load balancer. After rebooting, the MAC address keeps changing (based on IPCONFIG /all). Application software is based on MAC, so the application keeps failing after reboot.
Jul 30, 2015 · some interfaces allow you to configure user-defined MAC addresses: R1#show int f0/0 | i bia. Hardware is AmdFE, address is cc00.0fac.0000 (bia cc00.0fac.0000) R1#conf t. Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. R1(config)#int f0/0. R1(config-if)#mac-address 0200.0000.0001.
May 16, 2021 · This is what to do: There is a BIOS flashing bug that affects all sorts of motherboards, ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE. It leaves the Intel NIC with an invalid MAC after BIOS flash.
May 29, 2014 · The source MAC address is the MAC address of the sender's NIC. The destination MAC address is determined based on the routing process. If the destination IP address is on a different network segment, the sender's NIC uses the MAC address of the default gateway (router) to forward the packet.
An Ethernet MAC address is a hardware address, therefore, it MUST uniquely identifies every Ethernet device in the world. When vendors create network devices such Ethernet NICs, wireless devices, routers, and switches, they burn-in these addresses into their devices.
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Nov 20, 2009 · The MAC address on one of my servers changed by itself. I got an alert from Spiceworks and cannot figure out why it would change out of the blue. I have made no changes to this server. It is an HP DL 380 G5 with teamed nics, and maybe the teaming software changes it based on the primary NIC.