We currently have a situation where we can only use a single MAC address on the server we have access to. Is it possible to run other computers through this computer using a secondary NIC? If we were to buy a USB network card, could we plug a second laptop or router into it, and share off the computer in the middle? I know you could in the past run multiple computers off of a desktop with 2 NIC's, but will this work with the MAC filtering as well as being used on a laptop? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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1 johntrottier // Aug 2, 2008
The easy solution is:
Get a router from local computer store
configure the wan to work on the network
clone the MAC ID of the machine that is on the network now
Set up a sub net on the LAN side of the router that all your computers connect on
Now all your computers are on their network, and share the server on the WAN side. The server is happy because it thinks all the traffic is coming from 1 MAC ID
Your sharing the server the same way multiple computers share the internet in your home
2 geopgeop // Aug 2, 2008
Many routers can use MAC address cloning so if you connect the computer with the MAC address to a router, you can clone that address on the router so it appears to the server as if it was that computer. This is especially true for those connected to cable ISPs. By that very note, the effectiveness of MAC filtering is reduced somewhat (you still need to know the MAC address).
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