How To Spoof Your MAC Address on Mac OS X

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Mac address is a unique identifier for every computer network card. You might want to spoof your mac address sometimes for whatever reasons. So, here are the way to do it. It should works with but not limited to Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and10.6.

First of all you should take a look on your current MAC address. Launch the terminal and start typing below command and hit 'enter'.

ifconfig en1 | grep ether

You'll  see the result something like this.

ether 00:12:cb:c6:24:e2


So, that's is your mac address. To spoof your MAC address just set it to another hex value in this format : aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. This is how it's done.
Simply type the following command together with your spoof MAC address. For example :

sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

Check your MAC address again using this command.

ifconfig en1 | grep ether

You should see your new spoof MAC address..

ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

Happy trying

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