Something to clone a MAC adress?

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DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:53 am

I drag my laptop up my university's campus a lot (where I don't live) and they do their room internet service subscriptions by MAC adress. I know I can clone a MAC with a router, but I don't want to drag one with me every time. Is there a gentoo util that can do that, like mask my NIC's MAC to be whatever the other computer's MAC is?

vladgrigorescu · Post by **vladgrigorescu** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:38 am

Sure is! You'll need the MAC first, but use something like this:

ifconfig eth0 hw ether "de:ad:be:ef:ff:ff"

UberLord · Post by **UberLord** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:49 am

baselayout also supports this - you'll need to emerge macchanger though.

Checkout conf.d/net,example for more details

DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:41 pm

Nice, thanks to the both of you. I'll give it a try this weekend.