Spoofing mac address

How change mac address

This used to be super helpful when e.g. airport would only give you 30 minutes free wifi.

  • add e.g. hwaddress ether A4-19-E2-94-DD-BB to end of /etc/network/interfaces
  • sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Even easier:

sudo apt install macchanger
sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 down
sudo macchanger -r wlp3s0
sudo ifconfig wlp3s0 up