• ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Changing your MAC will make older messages undeliverable, but that just means the connection will be momentarily interrupted until you establish new connections after re-connecting to the WiFi.

    Why not just assign yourself a different internal IP? Because a. the router probably wants to assign you one itself via DHCP; and b. the router isn’t looking at your IP address to lock you out; it’s looking at your MAC address.

    If your IP address is where in cyberspace you are, a MAC address is who you are. If you want to fool the bouncer, change your name, not your address.

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      1 year ago

      I see! Thanks for the explanation! Didn’t put two and two together to realize that the router basically reads MACs and writes IPs.