[itskamel]

Originally Posted by JustThatDude After you restart your computer your mac address is reverted back to your original. It can't be done PERMANENTLY

Right but a simple click of a app can change it on the fly, then what more do you need?

[hellsing9]

You can clone/spoof the hell you want with the mac address.
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Originally Posted by JustThatDude After you restart your computer your mac address is reverted back to your original. It can't be done PERMANENTLY

Wrong. If you are using an integrated ethernet, you can change the values of it, even if you are behind a router. Now if the DHCP of your ISP keeps forcing the pron you cannot do anything, hence everytime you change your mac address (if you are behind a router) you will got offline cloning it, etc.
Man...you can even while the whole realteak info and convert it to any brand you want.
If it's legal?, i don't know depends on the laws on each country.

[bobross]

I need this sooo bad. HD got corrupted from a multiman upgrade. I lost so much. Please make a windows app someone!

[DEFAULTDNB]

Originally Posted by gingerbread Sorry about a slight off-topic. There are millions of network device on this planet. I wonder if the unique MAC address could run out someday? Thanks.

MAC = 48bit (correct me if I'm wrong) 2^48 combinations.

Firstly and most important, a MAC address consists of two major parts - The manufacturer's ID (first 3 bytes/24 bits) and the unique serial number (second 3 bytes/24 bits) (for more info on this check www.firewall.cx/mac_addresses.php ). So, for each manufacture, we have a possible 16777216 MAC addresses, and you might now ask ... so what happens when the manufacture reaches MAC Address number 16777216? Simple ... he starts from number 1, re-using the same numbers because it's highly unlikely you will ever buy two or more network cards with the same MAC Address! The 2nd part of the answer has obviously got to do with the manufacturer's ID, where the 3 bytes/24 bits will give us 16777216 possible combinations. Here we will find a number of restrictions but be aware that there aren't that many manufactures or even close to half of them, around the world. The IEEE group is responsible to assigning the first 3 bytes to the applicant vendor and you can obtain a full list of them if you look for RFC1700.

Its obviously different for PCK0, probably way more than 48bit.

[oPolo]

Originally Posted by JustThatDude After you restart your computer your mac address is reverted back to your original. It can't be done PERMANENTLY

Ah yea, that was how it is. You had to use a proxy layer to mask it as something else. Forgot that, but true MAC address's is by design impossible to permanently change.

Originally Posted by gingerbread Sorry about a slight off-topic. There are millions of network device on this planet. I wonder if the unique MAC address could run out someday? Thanks.

Well it could, the mac address is stored in an 48bit key (2^48= 281474976710656 unique addresses). Although, if I remember right, some of the hex numbers in the key describes what company that produced the NIC with that MAC address and some others describes at what factory it was produced. Perhaps some describes some sort of time stamp. Anyway, that reduces the amount of free MAC addresses alot(in a similar way IPv4 was limited in addresses, due to reserved IP ranges). Its unlikely it will run out soon though. I don't see a giant problem with it either. Yes, some problems will undoubtly happen, but imho MACaddresses is only REALLY used as a identifier on LAN, which are extremely extremely extremely small compared to the devices on the whole net... MAC sucks as authentication also, due to attacks such as ARP spoofing and mac address spoofing, so that would not be a big issue either... If anyone uses MAC for authentication on anything bigger than a LAN, they are imho retards. Ofc something would still had to be done, to ensure everyone can still have a unique identifier in LAN's though...

[gingerbread]

Originally Posted by DEFAULTDNB MAC = 48bit (correct me if I'm wrong) 2^48 combinations.

Originally Posted by oPolo Well it could, the mac address is stored in an 48bit key (2^48= 281474976710656 unique addresses). Although, if I remember right, some of the hex numbers in the key describes what company that produced the NIC with that MAC address and some others describes at what factory it was produced. Perhaps some describes some sort of time stamp. Anyway, that reduces the amount of free MAC addresses alot(in a similar way IPv4 was limited in addresses, due to reserved IP ranges). Its unlikely it will run out soon though. I don't see a giant problem with it either. Yes, some problems will undoubtly happen, but imho MACaddresses is only REALLY used as a identifier on LAN, which are extremely extremely extremely small compared to the devices on the whole net... MAC sucks as authentication also, due to attacks such as ARP spoofing and mac address spoofing, so that would not be a big issue either... If anyone uses MAC for authentication on anything bigger than a LAN, they are imho retards. Ofc something would still had to be done, to ensure everyone can still have a unique identifier in LAN's though...

OMG! Thanks for the detail explanation! It makes sense!
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Originally Posted by Cheesethief Couldn't this potentially be used to inject files onto the HDD? NOR consoles have a part of their firmware on the HDD, so perhaps we could modify it and make a CFW? Though that probably would not work...

You mention that "NOR consoles have a part of their firmware on the HDD".

Could you explain more about it? Is there a link where I can read on it.

Thank you.

[DEFAULTDNB]

Boom baby.

Anyway I wonder what this could lead to? It's just nice to see another part of the PS3 blown wide open.

[Rautz]

Originally Posted by Twinkeltoe Everybody was expecting you to do it since it's so simple for you. They waited and waited but in the end they decided to do it for you......

Haha this made me laugh my ass off

[SifJar]

Originally Posted by bobross I need this sooo bad. HD got corrupted from a multiman upgrade. I lost so much. Please make a windows app someone!

The release is source code. Feel free to compile it. (No one else can do it for you, you need to include YOUR console's keys and a list of HDD sectors [I think] to be able to compile it, otherwise it won't work).

[JustThatDude]

Originally Posted by SifJar The release is source code. Feel free to compile it. (No one else can do it for you, you need to include YOUR console's keys and a list of HDD sectors [I think] to be able to compile it, otherwise it won't work).

You could conpile it and have a option to put in your PCK0. I'm not sure but it's highly plausible