How To Permanently Change The MAC Address On Linux | Linux Today

How To Permanently Change The MAC Address On Linux

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May 24, 2018

This article explains how to permanently change / spoof the MAC addresses of network interfaces. For this purpose, we’ll use Macchanger, an utility for manipulating MAC addresses, for which we’ll create a systemd unit to start it automatically on boot.

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