The address is hard coded and assigned by the hardware manufacturare.  However
it does not prevent you from doing a "Soft" change via the OS or a
"Hard" change by reprograming the EEProm on the card.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Mikey wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 08:10, Don Calfa wrote:
> >>  of course it's not hard to change a NIC's mac
> >>address  ;-)
> 
> Really? I thought they were hard coded in. Could that explain the NIC's 
> address of all zeros? If I could change the MAC address to something other 
> than all zeros would that be a good indicator that this NIC is good? 
> (previously I thought that all zeros indicated that it was bad)
> 
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