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Re: spoofing the ethernet address


From: sen_ml () ECCOSYS COM (Sen_Ml Sen_Ml)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:11:20 +0900


paul.bobby> Is it possible to spoof this address also? Would someone
paul.bobby> have to write a custom ethernet driver?

on a number of operating systems, ifconfig allows one to modify the
mac address of a network interface.  there also used to be various
utilities out there that achieved the same goal -- i imagine they
would be available via places such as packetstorm.

as an example, under linux, as root:

  ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11

changes the mac address of eth0 to 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11, iirc.

see the man page for ifconfig ;-)

p.s. anyone know of a utility for choosing and configuring a random
mac address for an interface?  it should be pretty easy to write, but
if there is already one out there, it'd be nice to know.


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