Changing Mac address manually

 Hello guys pytools here, back again with another article. Today we are going to learn how you can change your Linux Mac address manually without using any tool.

So let's get started.

Before going to change the Mac address you need to understand what mac address is and why we need to change it?

Our network card has at least two addresses or identificators, the IP address we all know which can be dynamic and the physical address, the mac address which is unique for each device, it is the hardware address. Changing our mac address may be useful to avoid leaving logs with our real address on another computer or router. Changing the mac address may be useful to clone other mac addresses forcing them to get disconnected from a network and connecting again, useful to sniff the password when reinserted.

How to find Mac address?

To check your mac address just execute:

Ifconfig 

On your Linux terminal

You will get Mac address under hw-ether property.




Here We can see on the enp2s0 network card the mac address is d0:17:c2:12:3c:cd .

How to change Mac address?

First of all, to edit our network card mac address we need to disable our network card, the mac can not be changed while the card is being used. To disable our network card run:

Ifconfig <interface> down

Note: in my case interface name is enp2s0

Then, to edit our mac address type:

ifconfig <interface name> hw ether <new Mac address>

Then enable the network card back by typing:

ifconfig <interface> up

The overall commands look like:

ifconfig enp2s0 down

ifconfig enp2s0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

ifconfig enp2s0 up

Want to see change Mac address type ifconfig command on your Linux terminal.

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