Re: Fingerprinting motherboards

[David Cureton <david.cureton@catapult.com>]

I was not actually trying to identify an specific motherboard such as is done 
when trying to lock software to a specific host(ie MAC address) . 

I am trying to identify a class of motherboard. Oh this one is a Gigabyte 
GA-7VAXP and this one is a ASUS-blah... and so on. 

I'm not sure if the motherboard vendors purchase MAC address ranges and if 
there would be no guarantee that Mobo X is in range Y. 

Have to see if MoBo manuf. actually get assigned MAC address ranges. 

Thanks David





On Tuesday 13 May 2003 15:29, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:09:47AM +1000, David Cureton wrote:
> > No biggie there. However I was just wondering on what peoples thoughts
> > are on the best way to fingerprinting a motherboard so I know which PCI
> > mapping file I should install.
>
> <shrug> Has it got a NIC in it?  There's your fingerprint... the MAC.  You
> control the boxen, so while I suppose someone could make the box lie about
> it, that problem shouldn't come up.
>
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