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Re: [LUG] MAC address on Android

 

Are you seeing the MAC change on the device itself, or on the router?

I've not heard of a device changing its MAC address by default (unless there's an 
APP installed which does it)

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
George Parker
Sent: 13 January 2014 11:35
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LUG] MAC address on Android

Setting up a new router I have a problem. I allocate my  2 PC's and a laptop with 
fixed IP's as it makes it easier to make them talk to each other over NFS. They are 
identified by their Mac Address. I tried to allocate fixed IP's to my 2 Android 
devices but they give a different MAC address each time they connect over WI-Fi.  I 
thought that the MAC address was fixed for a piece of hardware. If not I can't 
allocate a fixed IP to my devices as the MAC seems to be the only way to do this.

There again, I maybe don't need to do this with my Android devices as I don't think 
I can use NFS on them.

George

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