Cant change my "MAC address" (need new internal IP)

[Juusuhako]

As the picture above shows I am able to change my MAC address via router login. However, no matter which values I change, they just revert to the same when I click "Save".

I tried a program called "SMAC" that supposedly "spoofs" your MAC address but this doesnt help me either. What im trying to do is change my internal IP (the one that shows up when I go to www.myip.dk), not to be confused with my external IP.

Does anyone know of a solution?

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

As the picture above shows I am able to change my MAC address via router login. However, no matter which values I change, they just revert to the same when I click "Save".

I tried a program called "SMAC" that supposedly "spoofs" your MAC address but this doesnt help me either. What im trying to do is change my internal IP (the one that shows up when I go to www.myip.dk), not to be confused with my external IP.

Does anyone know of a solution?

You need to change the mac address of a pc in your router - for mac address authentication?

You can't change the mac address in the network adapter itself on a pc that I know of, its unique assigned by the manufacturer of the hardware.

--Rick--

 

[hmmblah]

As the picture above shows I am able to change my MAC address via router login. However, no matter which values I change, they just revert to the same when I click "Save".

I tried a program called "SMAC" that supposedly "spoofs" your MAC address but this doesnt help me either. What im trying to do is change my internal IP (the one that shows up when I go to www.myip.dk), not to be confused with my external IP.

Does anyone know of a solution?

I'm confused as to what you're looking for. You said you don't want to change your external IP yet the link you posted shows what your external ISP assigned IP is.

Are you trying to change the IP on your router's WAN side (External IP) or are you trying to change the IP address of a single machine behind your router (internal IP, usually 192.168.x.x)?

 

[Juusuhako]

You need to change the mac address of a pc in your router - for mac address authentication?

You can't change the mac address in the network adapter itself on a pc that I know of, its unique assigned by the manufacturer of the hardware.

--Rick--

I'm confused as to what you're looking for. You said you don't want to change your external IP yet the link you posted shows what your external ISP assigned IP is.

Are you trying to change the IP on your router's WAN side (External IP) or are you trying to change the IP address of a single machine behind your router (internal IP, usually 192.168.x.x)?

Srry im the one getting it mixed up. I need a new EXTERNAL IP (the one from my ISP).

I swear on my old motherboard all I did was change a value in the MAC address and the external IP would change right after, but has this changed with newer motherboards???

Should I get a router with MAC cloning instead? Isnt that feature specifically made to change your external IP?

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Found this free program: MAC changer

It does according to Device Manager and when I log onto router indeed change the MAC address, so I guess its not totally locked to the hardware? My external IP however remains the same.

Must check later tonight when family has gone to bed and see if restarting the router makes any difference.

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

You have the concepts mixed up. Mac address is a hardware address assigned to your network card/wifi adapter by the manufacturer. It has nothing to do with an ip address which is assigned by DHCP from your router or access point or hardcoded in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx is 0 to 255.

Routers and other network gear can be set to only allow access via certain pieces of hardware via mac address. This is where I think you are at and it has nothing to do with an IP address.

I am still super unclear on what you are trying to do

--Rick--

 

[Juusuhako]

You have the concepts mixed up. Mac address is a hardware address assigned to your network card/wifi adapter by the manufacturer. It has nothing to do with an ip address which is assigned by DHCP from your router or access point or hardcoded in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx is 0 to 255.

Routers and other network gear can be set to only allow access via certain pieces of hardware via mac address. This is where I think you are at and it has nothing to do with an IP address.

I am still super unclear on what you are trying to do

--Rick--

If I log onto my router, in "Advanced", theres a menu called "DHCP Connections". Here I can see my computer, its IP (internal) and its MAC Address. However, im trying to change my external IP. My external IP is the one I see when I go to MYIP.dk.

Its format is xx.xx.xx.xxx. This is the IP im receiving from my ISP.

I know for a fact I've changed this IP before by simply editing my MAC address, but for some reason, even after changing my MAC address it remains the same. I cant change my MAC address in the menu called "DHCP Connections" because if I try, it just reverts back to what it already was. I can however change it using software or device manager, but like I said, this for some reason doesnt change my external IP address like it used to.

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

If I log onto my router, in "Advanced", theres a menu called "DHCP Connections". Here I can see my computer, its IP (internal) and its MAC Address. However, im trying to change my external IP. My external IP is the one I see when I go to MYIP.dk.

Its format is xx.xx.xx.xxx. This is the IP im receiving from my ISP.

I know for a fact I've changed this IP before by simply editing my MAC address, but for some reason, even after changing my MAC address it remains the same. I cant change my MAC address in the menu called "DHCP Connections" because if I try, it just reverts back to what it already was. I can however change it using software or device manager, but like I said, this for some reason doesnt change my external IP address like it used to.

ok, your ip address is assigned to you by your isp. if it is assigned via DHCP, they have a lease time that automatically renews if your pc is on. you cant really change your ip address unless you hard code it in the settings for your network adapter. I am unclear why you want a new ip address at all. Are you trying to get back to your pc? Unless you pay for a real ip address a lot of them from providers are NAT-ed to real address once they leave your provider. If you want an IP address that is reachable and unchangable from the outside world, you usually have to pay extra.

I suggest you take a look at how DHCP works and see what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[Juusuhako]

ok, your ip address is assigned to you by your isp. if it is assigned via DHCP, they have a lease time that automatically renews if your pc is on. you cant really change your ip address unless you hard code it in the settings for your network adapter. I am unclear why you want a new ip address at all. Are you trying to get back to your pc? Unless you pay for a real ip address a lot of them from providers are NAT-ed to real address once they leave your provider. If you want an IP address that is reachable and unchangable from the outside world, you usually have to pay extra.

I suggest you take a look at how DHCP works and see what you are trying to accomplish.

My "lease time" is set to 120 minutes. Ive been on the computer all day and the IP hasnt changed.

Does it only change while the PC is off and then the next time I turn it on?

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

My "lease time" is set to 120 minutes. Ive been on the computer all day and the IP hasnt changed.

If I set it to 1, would my external IP change whilst the PC is on, or does it only change while its off and then the next time I turn it on?

as long as you keep your PC on, it never changes IP address. It keeps releasing the same address via DHCP.

if you are running windows try this and see what you get from the command line

ipconfig /all

that shows you all your network addapters, MAC address (Physical Address) and all the other things about your current network connection

it shows you when you got your lease and when it expires

the command ipconfig/renew will renew your lease

if you want to release your lease you do ipconfig /release to release your lease, then follow with ipconfig /renew to get a new address. Caveat - you might get the same one back if your Net provider has it setup with a preference for your MAC address.

I suggest if you are interested in how networking works, you get a basics book or look on the internet

 

[Juusuhako]

as long as you keep your PC on, it never changes IP address. It keeps releasing the same address via DHCP.

if you are running windows try this and see what you get from the command line

ipconfig /all

that shows you all your network addapters, MAC address (Physical Address) and all the other things about your current network connection

it shows you when you got your lease and when it expires

the command ipconfig/renew will renew your lease

if you want to release your lease you do ipconfig /release to release your lease, then follow with ipconfig /renew to get a new address. Caveat - you might get the same one back if your Net provider has it setup with a preference for your MAC address.

I suggest if you are interested in how networking works, you get a basics book or look on the internet

Already tried the whole /release /renew thing, used it for years when for some reason my internet wouldnt work. It doesnt change my external IP.

With a lease time on 5, should I get a new external IP if I leave the PC off for 5minutes, or do I need to leave the router shut off for 5minutes?

 

[YouWhat]

your router will be what is maintaining the connection to the ISP, also the PC mac address has nothing to do with it, it will be the MAC address on the router that needs to be changed if you are messing about with that to change it.

You will be best of shutting off the router for a minimum of 5 minutes for the address to hopefully be grabbed by someone else.

This is only a rough thing to what you should do if you really want to change you external IP address, although quite as to why you should want and need such a thing except to bypass the download limits imposed by some sites for grabbing files, or your current ip address is getting DDOS attacked or something else untoward......

 

[Juusuhako]

your router will be what is maintaining the connection to the ISP, also the PC mac address has nothing to do with it, it will be the MAC address on the router that needs to be changed if you are messing about with that to change it.

You will be best of shutting off the router for a minimum of 5 minutes for the address to hopefully be grabbed by someone else.

This is only a rough thing to what you should do if you really want to change you external IP address, although quite as to why you should want and need such a thing except to bypass the download limits imposed by some sites for grabbing files, or your current ip address is getting DDOS attacked or something else untoward......

Its been off for 6-8hours overnight, but IP remains the same. Thinking of buying a new router monday that has MAC cloning. That should let me change the external IP as I please (from what I understand reading about it).

 

[YouWhat]

The external IP address is DHCP controller from your ISP, so there isnt a lot you can really do to change it, but again I ask, why the need to?

 

[Juusuhako]

The external IP address is DHCP controller from your ISP, so there isnt a lot you can really do to change it, but again I ask, why the need to?

I need avoiding the same IP getting logged for specific things (ie. logging onto League of Legends), among other things.

You say I cant but I know I have done it before (I had an old Linksys router few months ago which had this "MAC clone" thingy).... unfortunately it was broken, kept DCing every 10minutes. When I put back the old router the IP was changed. Im positive a more advanced router should be able to solve my issue.

 

[YouWhat]

You might of been able to do it in the past, but what changes has your ISP implemented since then? What policies have they changed? There are a lot of thing that aren't just as simple as used to be able to.....

Some modem / routers (especially those from an ISP) which have their custom firmware will have a unique identifier implanted (this is some of the things they don't want you to know and why they don't like their custom firmwares being changed and why they make it so hard to change them unless you know what you are doing, look to BT in UK with their homehubs for an good example of this) and this is why your IP wont change, as to their DHCP which will be split into segments, and the are you are in, is 1 segement with a certain allocation of IP addresses) unless those IP addresses become in demand, the chance of you getting a renewed address are low, yes you can mess about with mac addresses etc etc, but again it down to their policies and DHCP controls that ultimately are responsible for what you get.

I know you might not want to hear this, but you might not be able to get it changed / refreshed without contacting you ISP customer services. just make up excuse like someone been trying to get access / hack to your computer / home network, and want the IP address changed / refreshed. All ISPs will accommodate this request, even go as far as to tell them your situation and what you require, and that you can't seem to get a new IP address.

I wont say anything about why you might need a new IP address to play game except getting server banned on that address for whatever reason.... Am I being cynical?? Possible but to be needing something like this is very strange and unusual to say the least.....

 

[Juusuhako]

Im not banned, heh. I used to pay for VPN service to hide my own IP when logging onto other peoples account (boosting). But the latency from those servers would jump alot, making it very unstable.