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A small bash script to change a mac address - includes one line of Python to generate random numbers.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# The MIT License (MIT) | |
# | |
# Copyright (c) 2014 Christian Koepp <[email protected]> | |
# | |
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# SOFTWARE. | |
# enter your interfaces here | |
INTERFACES=(wlan0 eth0) | |
# like to see what is going on? Set debug to true: | |
DEBUG=false | |
for INTERFACE in ${INTERFACES[*]}; do | |
$DEBUG && echo "Deactivating $INTERFACE" | |
ifconfig $INTERFACE down | |
while : ; do | |
NEW_MAC=$(python -c "import random; print(':'.join(['%02X' % random.randrange(0,255) for i in range(0,6)]))") | |
$DEBUG && echo "Trying to set $NEW_MAC to $INTERFACE" | |
ifconfig $INTERFACE hw ether $NEW_MAC > /dev/null 2>&1 | |
[[ $? -ne 0 ]] || break | |
$DEBUG && echo "$INTERFACE rejected address $NEW_MAC" | |
done | |
$DEBUG && echo "Reactivating $INTERFACE" | |
ifconfig $INTERFACE up | |
done |
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