@PhilipDAth A dirty trick after my own heart! Thanks for that. I don't know, but I more than suspect that serving up synthetic MACs is there, but nobody has thought to implement it, yet. Fixed MACs are an exploitable weakness, per my TLA gnomes. As far as I can tell, MACs are used as part of the authentication process by multicast premium video service suppliers, so they expect to be able to interrogate a port for its associated MAC. I can do this on the Cisco IoT switches, and I have seen them turning up in other manufacturer's hardware.
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