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Free IP Scanner: Simple, efficient, out-of-the-box

Jan 24th, 2012
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Expert or not, if you find yourself needing to administrate your network (even a home one) a vital part of this process consists on getting to know it better. Currently there are many network utilities that can help you do that by identifying all the computers in a given network (including the MAC addresses), NetBios information, open ports as well as possible security issues.

Free IP Scanner is a robust tool that can do all of the above and it attracted quite a number of “happy customers” over the years, thanks to its intuitive, simple way to use it and handy capabilities.

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Wireshark: Capture network traffic “from the wire”

Sep 30th, 2011
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For those in need of a powerful utility for network analysis, Wireshark, formerly known as Ethereal, is a highly recommended solution that comes bundled with an exhaustive set of tools for network troubleshooting, protocol development and education. Wireshark allows you to capture incoming and outgoing traffic and browse packets data interactively from a live network or previously saved captured files using the graphical user interface or the TTY-mode TShark utility (the terminal-based version).

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Wake on Lan: Simple 1 button MAC address waker

Sep 4th, 2009
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wake-lanThe title says pretty much everything, Wake on Lan is a pocket application that will Wake any computer in your Lan only by entering its MAC address. Simple huh? Of course, if you are a corporate admin(?!), you would have your own networking tools to adminize.

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How To: Change your MAC address in Windows

Jul 17th, 2008
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Although MAC (Media Access Control) addresses were designed to represent a network card’s ID and were designed as permanent, some software and techiques allow us to easily change (or “Spoof”) the MAC address easily.

Change the MAC manually under Windows XP

Method 1

mac address spoofGo the the Ethernet Adapter’s Properties menu, the Advanced Tab and you can see a filed named: “MAC Address”, “Network Address” or “Ethernet Address”, depending entirely on the network card’s driver.

Using this method you can change the MAC address very fast, in a matter of clicks.

Note that some network cards don’t have this featured enabled, but those are rare cases.

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