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is there any way to make a virtual network adapter in windows (that has its own mac address, and lets me bridge it to another connection? So in the end, it'll be like another physical connection that's connected to its own internet.)

I noticed VMware connects its virtual OS to the internet by creating a virtual adapter and bridging it to a physical adapter. It has its own mac address.

I found something called a Microsoft Loopback Adapter, but I dont think thats it, is it? I want to be able to bridge it, and have programs bind to that specific adapter, but have it still have its own virtual mac address.

-Thanks

//crossposted from social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/6077c9d6-5562-43be-874f-0f4ebea3a45e (I'm not the original author)

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I think even if you gave the loopback adapter a customer MAC address the routing table would actually egress the traffic out the only interface that can get to the destination. I'm curious why you need it to bind to a different MAC address, and not just a different IP address since it's going to ride the same physical adapter anyway? Is it traffic counting or something like that? Perhaps a server grade NIC like a broadcom would work for something like this, by using VLAN tagging, maybe :) – SpacemanSpiff Jun 11 '11 at 4:47
@SpacemanSpiff: Yes, they will use the same physical adapter (LAN Card). That way I could use multiple SSO account in my university's network and doubled the download traffic :) I could get it to work with VMWare, but how to do it without VMWare ? – reed1 Jun 11 '11 at 6:05
Why not just change your mac address? – Ori Jun 11 '11 at 18:47
@Ori: What I need is multiple different mac address connected to the network – reed1 Jun 12 '11 at 23:52
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