Changing mac address semi permanently
September 21, 2017
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How to
Dead simple.
Open up the file /etc/network/interfaces. It will show you something like:
# This file describes the network interfaces avilable on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
and add at the end of the file, this line:
pre-up ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
This will spoof your mac address to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx every time your computer boots up.
The better how to
But the above solution sets your mac address to the same value every time.So you might wanna use macchanger:
pre-up macchanger -r eth0
pre-up macchanger -r wlan0
Adding these lines to /etc/network/interfaces
file will set the mac addresses to random values every time your computer wakes up.