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A small bash script to change a mac address - includes one line of Python to generate random numbers.
#!/bin/bash
# The MIT License (MIT)
#
# Copyright (c) 2014 Christian Koepp <christian.koepp@tum.de>
#
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# 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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