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What happens when two computers on the same network have the same MAC address?

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Mar 15, 202634882 views
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I was reading an article on WEP cracking, which said that filtering MAC addresses was not enough, since there are tools to change what the computer reports as its MAC address. This made me wonder what would happen if someone uses the same MAC address as another computer on the network? I've looked ā€¦

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It really does depend on how the routers and systems on the network are configured. At our office, our machines will not connect to the local domain due to the collision in MAC addresses. You'll get a notification message (in Windows) saying there iā€¦

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