Note down the network interface for which you want to spoof the MAC address.ģ. was used for wired interfaces, and wlan0, 1, and so on for wireless). Here, the wired network interface is enp10s0 and wireless network interface is wlp3s0 (previously, eth0, 1, etc. Link/ether 1d:21:da:ab:1d:71 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ffģ: wlp3s0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0Įther 1e:14:57:1c:66:11 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)ġ: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

Your network interfaces should now be displayed like this: If you're using a system where this no longer work, you can run this command instead: Find out the network interface for which you want to change the MAC addressįor this, you can use the following command: To install it in Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint, use:Ģ. Macchanger should be in the repositories for major Linux distributions. To use this guide, your Linux system needs to use systemd, obviously.

Since any change made by Macchanger resets when you reboot the system, this article includes instructions for creating a systemd unit to automatically run Macchanger when your Linux computer boots up, changing the MAC address each time.

Macchanger, the tool that we're going to use in this article to change the MAC address, has a service that asks if you want it to change your MAC each time your computer boots, but this fails to work for me on Ubuntu 18.04.

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