Re: spoofing the ethernet address

paul.bobby> Is it possible to spoof this address also? Would someone
paul.bobby> have to write a custom ethernet driver?

on a number of operating systems, ifconfig allows one to modify the
mac address of a network interface. there also used to be various
utilities out there that achieved the same goal -- i imagine they
would be available via places such as packetstorm.

as an example, under linux, as root:

  ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11

changes the mac address of eth0 to 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11, iirc.

see the man page for ifconfig ;-)

p.s. anyone know of a utility for choosing and configuring a random
mac address for an interface? it should be pretty easy to write, but
if there is already one out there, it'd be nice to know.
Received on Mar 01 2000