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Just a tip to change the MAC address on your MacOS X box

November 22nd, 2008 admin No comments

On a terminal window type:

% sudo ifconfig <interface> ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

where <interface> is your NIC (normally en0) and xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is the new MAC address that you want to set.

Three ways to change the MAC address

November 12th, 2008 admin No comments

May be you want to change the MAC address of your NIC adapter to test your home network. Here you can find three ways to do this for the eth0 (wifi, ethernet, ….) device:

1. Debian and derived distribution

you need to modify the /etc/network/interfaces, search for the eth0 definitions and at the end of the definitions add the following line:

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