Simple trick
Simple trick
Last time I went on vacation, the hotel wifi wouldn't let my laptop on for some reason, but my phone was fine. The portal to log in just wouldn't come up on my laptop.
So I took my phone off the wifi and just spoofed my phone's MAC address on the laptop. Did that for the whole week I was there.
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6What was incredibly strange about my situation was that it was initially a DNS problem, it couldn't resolve the addresses tha tthe hotel wifi wanted it to get to for the portal. I double checked, and basic DNS queries were working, just not those ones.
So I figured, I'll go on my phone, grab the IP addresses it's connecting to, stick those in my hosts file, and they'll get resolved. Well, this worked for the first portal address, but the one it redirected to couldn't be reached. Nothing I tried worked, so I had to do what I described above.
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I did this once to get on Xbox live cause the Xbox doesn't (or didn't, idk I'm PC now) open the web portal for you to agree to.
So I just changed my hardware address to my laptop's after I went through the portal in a web browser.
No problems. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a network engineer. The fact that it worked was just so damn cool.
3If you've got a VPN running, it won't work. Turned it off and the prompt came right up
2Nah, I don't typically run a VPN.
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I didn't think of that at all! Brilliant!
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Alt: it's a simple spell but quite unbreakable.24I'll probably forget to check when I get home. Does anyone know if Android randomizes the MAC address on every disconnect/connect with the random MAC option enabled?
24Afaik it does.
8Not by default. It remembers the MAC for each specific network. This is because sometimes you want to have specific device on the same IP all the time. The DHCP decides this via the MAC.
If you want it truly randomised every time you need to turn on non persistent MAC randomisation in the developer option.
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it does for me, I'm on project elixir
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This reminds me of college. Was downloading movie torrents on my laptop while in class, just made it so it wouldn't go to sleep when you closed the lid. So the IT guys kept kicking me off, so I'd change my MAC and keep going. It got to the point where I did that so much that the IT guys were actually going around campus looking for whoever was doing it. Also I changed my MAC so much it fried the wifi card in my laptop to the point it needed replaced lmao. Good times.
23Isn’t the MAC address fixed to the hardware? Am I growing old?
17It still is if I'm correct but most operating systems have an option to spoof/randomize your MAC address
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It is, but there are ways to spoof it so your device presents a different one when connecting to a network.
11Not quite. I'm not really sure but I think the original idea actually was a fixed hardware address but I'm not sure if a lot of devices actually ever implemented it that way because it's simpler (and cheaper) to control it in software. In modern (especially mobile) devices it's actually a security requirement because with a fixed MAC address you could be tracked by other wifi devices.
5With the right software, you can do anything!
3As the others said that is normally the case but nowadays most computers and mobiles have an option that randomize the MAC addresses on each connection.
These MAC addresses are known as locally-administered address. They look like this:
x2:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx x6:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx xA:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx xE:xx:xx:xx:xx:xxAnd rarely like this:
x3‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx x7‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx xB‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx xF‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx‑xx2
I just spent a whole week trying to prevent mac spoofing on my small wisp network network... Still trying...
14You are the worst kind of person
9Just trying to live up the villain dream...
7😂
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Please don't block Boeing or other funny MAC Adress prefixes. Why wouldn't you believe a 747 was using your network?
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