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Re: [PEN-TEST] Change MAC Address


From: Arturo Busleiman <buanzox () USA NET>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:21:39 -0300

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Bill Weiss wrote:

Under Linux (maybe BSD, don't know), you can do it with ifconfig like so:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01

(works on my machine).  Of course, you have to be root...

and, of course, you have to put the interface down, and then up again.

I know it's stupid to remind you of that, but just in case..... well, the
real thing is that it happened to me..... I had forgotten to put it down
:) what a fool of me :)

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