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Littleodie914

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Jun 9, 2004
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Yep, ya heard it right guys. I need to somehow change the MAC address of my built-in ethernet port. I tried using:

sudo ifconfig en0 ether [new mac address]

And the new address shows up when I run ifconfig again, but in the System Prefs it remains the old value. Any ideas? Thanks! :)
 
I believe that mac address is handled at the chipset, that's the only way that i've read that you can change it.

I'd have to read up on it more
 
I haven't had any luck either with this. Maybe ifconfig lladdr and the like are depreciated?
 
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