pgrm
5/23/2014 - 7:25 AM

I'm having troubles with my internet connection and need to connect to my router with a different mac address every time. This script create

I'm having troubles with my internet connection and need to connect to my router with a different mac address every time. This script creates a random mac address and tries to set it, when the two mac-addresses displayed by this script are the same, it was set successfully.

set_random_mac_address.sh
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macAddress=`openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`
sudo ifconfig en0 ether $macAddress
echo "new mac address:"
echo $macAddress
sudo ifconfig en0 ether