Changing The MAC Address of a NIC in OS X Mountain Lion

2012-12-11 00:45 | Category: Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion | Tags: MAC Address, Spoofing

This process is also known as spoofing.

# generating a random mac:
openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'
# ↑ although this doesn't take care of bit 0 and 1 of byte 0 which should be 0.
#   ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Address_details )
# changing the MAC address:
sudo ifconfig en0 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

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