Now, its time to change network card’s hardware MAC address to some random hexadecimal numbers:īring your network interface up and display your new MAC addres: If the following error message appears you have most likely failed to turn off your network interface:ĮRROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address Use ifconfig command to turn off your network interface: The network interface you are about to change a MAC address on must be turned off prior your MAC address change attempt.
To do this we execute macchanger with an option -s and an argument eth0. We can start by investigating our current MAC address of eg eth0 network interface. Instructions Change to a Random MAC addressįirst, let’s see how we can use macchanger to change network card’s hardware MAC address to a random address.
The following article will show how to change MAC address using macchanger on Kali Linux. The objective is to change or fake an original network card’s hardware MAC address.