changing mac adress with macchanger

[pjottrr]

Hello, i hope someone can halp me out,

i'm trying to change the mac adress of my wifi card ( temporary)

but i'm not really succesfull in specifying a particular adress.
a random generated adress is no problem... in order to show what i mean, here is my entire iw and if config, including the commands i used:

bt / # macchanger -r eth2
Current MAC: 00:11:50:b1:b6:6f (Belkin Corporation)
Faked MAC: 1c:19:fd:96:5e:ad (unknown)
bt / # macchanger -m 01:00:5E:00:00:01 eth2
Current MAC: 1c:19:fd:96:5e:ad (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt / # ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:00:23:E0:24
inet addr:192.168.1.138 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:ff:fe23:e024/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18382 errors:0 dropped:9 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:20596690 (19.6 MiB) TX bytes:860768 (840.5 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000 Memory:f0000000-f0000fff

eth2 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 1C-19-FD-96-5E-AD-30-3A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:feb1:b66f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:88269 (86.2 KiB) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

bt / # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"thegreenhouse"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:41:3A:6D:9F
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Power Management: off
Link Quality=85/100 Signal level=-45 dBm Noise level=-83 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:9 Missed beacon:0

eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID: off/any Nickname:"zd1211"
Mode:Monitor Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: Invalid
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
Encryption key: off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

bt / #



or simply use the ifconfig changer:

bt / # ifconfig eth2 hw ether 01:00:5E:00:00:01
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Cannot assign requested address
bt / #

this is only for the wireless card(s) the normal card ( not connected) gives no problems at all
i think it has something to do with the wireless parts.
if i give the command ifconfig eth2 down

iwconfig eth2 gives information, and still works.

is here anyone who has ideas?

[balding_parrot]

Here is your problem

ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up

[pjottrr]

that is something i allready new,

but that wasn't the correct answer

i tried again and i found out that macchanger cannot handle odd 2nd character in the mac adress

just testing with some mac adresses
bt ~ # macchanger -m 00:35:23:23:56:32 eth2
Current MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys Inc)
Faked MAC: 00:35:23:23:56:32 (unknown)
bt ~ # macchanger -m 00:11:22:33:44:55 eth2
Current MAC: 00:35:23:23:56:32 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys Inc)
bt ~ # macchanger -m 01:00:5e:00:00:01 eth2
Current MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys Inc)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt ~ # macchanger -m 02:22:33:44:55:66 eth2
Current MAC: 00:11:22:33:44:55 (Cimsys Inc)
Faked MAC: 02:22:33:44:55:66 (unknown)
bt ~ # macchanger -m 02:22:33:44:55:66 eth2

and even more clearly

ry `macchanger --help' for more options.
bt ~ # macchanger -m 01:00:5f:00:00:01 eth2
Current MAC: 02:22:33:44:55:66 (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt ~ # macchanger -m 01:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 02:22:33:44:55:66 (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt ~ # macchanger -m 02:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 02:22:33:44:55:66 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 02:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
bt ~ # macchanger -m 03:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 02:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt ~ # macchanger -m 04:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 02:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 04:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
bt ~ # macchanger -m 05:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 04:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
ERROR: Can't change MAC: interface up or not permission: Cannot assign requested address
bt ~ # macchanger -m 06:00:5f:00:00:11 eth2
Current MAC: 04:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)
Faked MAC: 06:00:5f:00:00:11 (unknown)

[notlist3d]

Try to turn the card off first. I believe its ifconfig down.

[shamanvirtuel]

ifconfig eth2 && macchanger --mac 00:35:23:23:56:32 eth2 && ifconfig eth2 up && ifconfig eth2;

copy paste the previous line in console

in one shot will down the card, change mac, up the card with new mac, display card config to verify that mac have changed....

hope helps

[balding_parrot]

He is saying it wont change to a mac like this
01:00:5f:00:00:01
03:00:5f:00:00:01
05:00:5f:00:00:01
07:00:5f:00:00:01
09:00:5f:00:00:01

Where the second figure (hilighted one) is an odd number

[shamanvirtuel]

mouarf i haven't see that......

really odd lol

[pjottrr]

0dd it is,

can you people take a look at it, and see if you can change it? to one of these mac adresses?

same goes toe broadcast mac adress ( FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ) edit: that gives exactly the same error as posted in my previous post

it won't change into that
now the question is exually what does this mac adress mean:


edit: added more info on about the network..

i got it from some accespoint nerby

here is the packet:

Size: 68, FromDS: 1, ToDS: 0 (WEP)

BSSID = 00:01:E3:55:79:1B
Dest. MAC = 01:00:5E:00:00:01
Source MAC = 00:01:E3:55:79:19

0x0000: 0842 0000 0100 5e00 0001 0001 e355 791b .B....^......Uy.
0x0010: 0001 e355 7919 a09a 018a a300 1eb1 87e2 ...Uy...........
0x0020: 385f 679e 5357 e810 1b32 4940 aec2 640c 8_g.SW...2I@..d.
0x0030: 72a6 7220 c29f 5782 0965 cd3f 4a6e 7077 r.r ..W..e.?Jnpw
0x0040: d5d1 58c6 ..X.

( in order to get arp replay working i need to know what mac adresses are being used / are associated.

use that mac adres.... and start the arp replay but on this dest. adress it won't work.

any suggestions?

[streaker69]

0dd it is,

can you people take a look at it, and see if you can change it? to one of these mac adresses?

same goes toe broadcast mac adress ( FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF )

it won't change into that
the reason is the folowing

( wil be added to the post in a few seconds)

Well of course you can't change to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, that only makes sense.

[pjottrr]

it is not the point that i can't change into the broadcast adress,
the point is, that i get exactly the same error when i want to us the broadcast adress

01:00:5E:00:00:01

it gaves in both cases: SIOCSIFHWADRR: cannot assign requestd adress