Can someone explain me how Mac spoofing realy works, is there any hardware needed?

It's not actually very difficult pretending to be a different device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing

http://www.wikihow.com/Spoof-a-MAC-Address

But one is wondering exactly why you need to do this, the MAC is supposed to be unique to a particular network device??

It's not actually very difficult pretending to be a different device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing

http://www.wikihow.com/Spoof-a-MAC-Address

But one is wondering exactly why you need to do this, the MAC is supposed to be unique to a particular network device??

Maybe hes a botter and got banned? Some gaming company's ban hardware address to banned users to prevent them getting back on..

Why do you want to do it?

Or are you trying to protect against it?

It's not actually very difficult pretending to be a different device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing

http://www.wikihow.com/Spoof-a-MAC-Address

But one is wondering exactly why you need to do this, the MAC is supposed to be unique to a particular network device??

especially as it's only broadcast within the LAN

pretending to be somebody else ?

pretending to be somebody else ?

Or something else.

Internet of Things and all that.

Maybe he wants to be a Fridge.