

Lastly, reboot your system and observe your registered new MAC address. Save the file and set the file's permission to executable with:Įnable the changemac script to execute a startup with: # Spoof the current MAC addresses with a random MAC address # The value for wlan0 (eth1) would change depending on the driver you're using - Be it Broadcom's STA wireless driver or Broadcom's B43 wireless driver Output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:91:04:07. In order to find out MAC address of system you can use ifconfig command as follows: /sbin/ifconfig grep HWaddr. The content of the changemac file would be the text below colored BLUE (copy and paste it). Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. Here's how I setup macchanger to automatically change my NIC's MAC address to a random MAC address.Ĭreate a file named changemac on your /etc/init.d/ folder with: Or right-click on the network icon in the tray, select Connection Information, and read it at the Hardware Address. Set specific MAC address of a network interface Some features that this utility offer are:
LINUX MINT SHOW MAC ADDRESS INSTALL
I've always appreciated the usefulness of this utility that I made it a point to install it when installing a new version of Ubuntu/LinuxMint on my lappy.

To enable or disable a specific Interface, we use the example command as follows.

The setting will be removed in case of a system reboot. I'm always a fan of collecting useful utilities, and I'm proud to say that macchanger is one of them. Assigning an IP Address and Gateway to the interface on the fly.
