MAC Address – How to Change/Spoof MAC Address and Switch Between Multiple Ones

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My router can do port-forwarding based on MAC addresses. That is, a specific MAC will get a specific IP, for which I can configure a set of ports to be forwarded. In order to easily change that set of ports, I'd like to have different connections in the Network manager.

How do I change the MAC address for a network connection?

Best Answer

First, go to the networking indicator and select "Edit connection" to configure a new connection:

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Click 'add' and choose a name for the spoofed MAC network connection.

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After selecting your interface "eth0" in the top dropdown, you can simply choose any MAC address you like:

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And after connecting to it, you'll be using your new MAC address.

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Running ip link ls will show you the new interface, including it's spoofed MAC:

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

And now you can easily switch MAC-addresses by connecting to one of the new connections.

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