Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Howto change your MAC address in ubuntu Linux

Type the following in a terminal with root permission

# ifconfig eth0 down
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 1b:2a:4c:4d:8e:9f ( this is only for example)
# ifconfig etho up

Check your new MAC address by using

# ifconfig

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 15, 2009 at 8:01 PM

    Hi there i don't know that which version of Ubuntu you were talking about.
    But I've tried that thing on Ubuntu 8.10.
    And it didn't work at all.
    I'm new here.
    I've used '#' before ifconfig.....
    Is it OK? Coz without '#' i couldn't proceed.
    Plzzz help me.

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  2. shibuvarkalaApril 16, 2009 at 8:01 PM

    this will work use the command as root

    # is the prompt for root user

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