Comments on: Eye-Fi http://blog.colinashe.net/2009/12/21/eye-fi/ Ruminations from a Ruminator Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:54:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Colin http://blog.colinashe.net/2009/12/21/eye-fi/#comment-993 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:02:42 +0000 http://blog.colinashe.net/?p=567#comment-993 No, the MAC address is a characteristic of the networking hardware in the Eye-Fi card. It won’t change regardless of whether you change hardware on your computer or even use a totally different computer.

Every networking device has a unique MAC address that is assigned by the manufacturer and stored in the device’s hardware. Hence, it is sometimes also called a hardware address or physical address. Since it is hardware-based, it doesn’t change.

Each networking device on your computer (wired ethernet card, wireless ethernet card) has a unique MAC address. If you replace, for example, your wireless card, your new wireless card will have a different MAC address than your old one. If you get a new Eye-Fi card, it will have a different MAC address than your original one. However, the MAC address of a given Eye-Fi card is independent of your computer hardware and never changes.

I hope this helps.

]]> By: ryan@lan http://blog.colinashe.net/2009/12/21/eye-fi/#comment-992 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:07:41 +0000 http://blog.colinashe.net/?p=567#comment-992 Does my mac adresse change if I upgrade my computer with some other hardware? For example change the graphic card?

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