Change your Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Geek

Media Access Control address, a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network. In
IEEE 802 networks, the Data Link Control (DLC) layer of the OSI Reference Model is divided into
two sublayers: the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer and the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. The
MAC layer interfaces directly with the network medium.Consequently, each different type of network
medium requires a different MAC layer. On networks that do not conform to the IEEE 802 standards but
do conform to the OSI Reference Model, the node address is called the Data Link Control (DLC)
address.
If you want to change your network card mac address you need to use simple utility called mac
changer.MAC changer is a utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces
Possible usages
Youre in a DHCP network with some kind of IP-based restriction
Youve a cluster that boot with BOOTP and you want to have a clean set of MACs
Debug MAC based routes
MAC Changer Features
Set specific MAC address of a network interface
Set the MAC randomly
Set a MAC of another vendor
Set another MAC of the same vendor
Set a MAC of the same kind (eg: wireless card)
Display a vendor MAC list (today, 6800 items) to choose from
Install MAC Changer in Ubuntusudo apt-get install macchanger
This will complete the installation.
If you Find your MAC address using the following command
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:A8:D0:FA
inet addr:172.20.22.35 Bcast:172.20.22.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fea8:d0fa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7690 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6399 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4284579 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:876317 (855.7 KiB)
Interrupt:177 Base address:01080

In the above example MAC Address is 00:0C:29:A8:D0:FA

If you want to configure MAC Changer you need to stop the networking services using the following
command
For Ubuntu Userssudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
Now you need to configure your MAC address using the following examples
MAC Changer Syntax
macchanger [options] device
Examples
macchanger eth1
Current MAC: 00:09:a5:eb:23:f7 (Hansung Eletronic Industries Development Co., Ltd)
Faked MAC: 00:09:a5:eb:23:f8 (Hansung Eletronic Industries Development Co., Ltd)
macchanger --endding eth1

Current MAC: 00:09:a5:eb:23:f8 (Hansung Eletronic Industries Development Co., Ltd)

Faked MAC: 00:09:a5:6f:31:23 (Hansung Eletronic Industries Development Co., Ltd)
macchanger --another eth1

Current MAC: 00:09:a5:6f:31:23 (Hansung Eletronic Industries Development Co., Ltd)

Faked MAC: 00:11:18:5b:3a:1f (Blx Ic Design Corp., Ltd.)
macchanger -A eth1
Current MAC: 00:06:5b:f6:f3:48 (Dell Computer Corp.)
Faked MAC: 00:0d:11:93:0c:4f (Dentsply - Gendex)
macchanger -r eth1
Current MAC: 00:0d:11:93:0c:4f (Dentsply - Gendex)
Faked MAC: 3c:f1:89:f9:1f:ce (unknown)
macchanger --mac=01:23:45:67:89:AB eth1

Current MAC: 00:40:96:43:87:65 [wireless] (Cisco/Aironet 4800/340)

Faked MAC: 01:23:45:67:89:ab (unknown)
./macchanger --list=Cray

Misc MACs:
Num MAC Vendor

065 - 00:00:7d - Cray Research Superservers,Inc
068 - 00:00:80 - Cray Communications (formerly Dowty Network Services)
317 - 00:40:a6 - Cray Research Inc.

Here is the list of available options for MAC Changer

-h, -help
Show summary of options.
-V, -version
Show version of program.
-e, -endding
Dont change the vendor bytes.
-a, -another
Set random vendor MAC of the same kind.
-A Set random vendor MAC of any kind.
-r, -random
Set fully random MAC.
-l, -list[=keyword]
Print known vendors (with keyword in the vendors description string)
-m, --mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Set the MAC XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
If you completed the your MAC address changes you need to start the networking service using the
following command
For Ubuntu Userssudo /etc/init.d/networking start