Ive put a edimax MIMO card in my pc (802.11G compatable) and i wanted to try it out to make sure it works, now we have mac filtering on the network and only my dad has access to the router to change the filters. so rather than wait for him i spoofed the mac of my wired lan card (and disabled the wired lan card obvisouly)
it worked fine checked i could get a signal connect browse.etc yep so it works.
but as where my pc is at the moment ive got a wired connection i dont see a point in using the wireless. So i renabled my wired Nic (but forgot to disable the wireless nic/remove the mac address spoofing first)
Now the strange thing is the router assigned the wired nic a new IP address and didn't seem to give a damn that there were 2 devices on the network both with the same MAC address
ive since disabled the wlan card and removed the spoofed mac but I always thought 2 devices on a network could NOT have the same mac address becuase it would lead to confusion as to which is which. so how come it worked
router is a belkin preN if it makes any difference.
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