Is there a way to reassign ethernet address?
Is it possible to fool the hardware's ethernet address on a iMac? I did a Carbon Copy Clone of old iMac (the rev B purple) to a new 15" iMac LCD. The problem is that I have a software that I license annually and that software uses the ethernet address to identify the owner (licensee) and since my current license is for the old iMac the software doesn't work.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.
Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.
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i found this on a forum.
don't take this to heart though, i've never tested it, so it might totally hose your machine. also make sure to write down your old MAC address, just to be safe.
For anyone who has not noticed it ... you are now able to change the system's Ethernet card MAC adress without any third party software. Just do a:
% sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
where en0 is the network interface (numbered from en0, en1, en2 ...) and aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff is the desired MAC address in hex notation.
oh hell, i'm a retard and i'm going to try it. hope for the best!
ok, anyone know of a command in OSX that works like ipconfig /all on a PC?
oh the uses and terrible hours of ban time from GR...f*** evill
...So, is there a way to reassign a new Mac address?
Thanks for your replies
Originally posted by ast3r3x
wow tell if this works!
oh the uses and terrible hours of ban time from GR...f*** evill
Looks like it didn't! Unless I am mistaken as of right now that post is almost 6 hours old!
ok, anyone know of a command in OSX that works like ipconfig /all on a PC?
Mac OS X also has an ipconfig command line tool, but it doesn't seem to have a man page and the help is useless.
[stoopowerbook:~] stoo% ipconfig --help
usage: ipconfig <command> <args>
where <command> is one of waitall, getifaddr, ifcount, getoption, getpacket, set
i've got an airport card, modem, ehternet card and in theory the IP over firewire, which might assign a MAC address.
so before i change anything, i need to find out which device is which. (en0, en1, en2 etc)
an ipconfig /all on a PC lists the device number, as well as the MAC and IP addresses. i need something that will tell me what those are.
but i asked around, and you can change your unique MAC address.
Thanks
sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
Usually en0 is built-in Ethernet and en1 is AirPort.
BTW, an Ethernet address and a MAC (short for media access control) address are the same thing.