macchanger Command Examples

Command-line utility for manipulating network interface MAC addresses. More information: https://manned.org/macchanger.

• View the current and permanent MAC addresses of a interface:

macchanger {{[-s|--show]}} {{interface}}

• Set interface to a random MAC:

macchanger {{[-r|--random]}} {{interface}}

• Set an interface to a random MAC address, and pretend to be a [b]urned-[i]n-[a]ddress:

macchanger {{[-r|--random]}} {{[-b|--bia]}} {{interface}}

• Set an interface to a specific MAC address:

macchanger {{[-m|--mac]}} {{XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX}} {{interface}}

• Print the identifications (the first three bytes of a MAC address) of all known vendors:

macchanger {{[-l|--list]}}

• Reset an interface to its permanent hardware MAC address:

macchanger {{[-p|--permanent]}} {{interface}}