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How to Change Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu 13.04

Last updated: July 3, 2013

Want to change the MAC address of your network card? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to do this in Ubuntu as easy as a few commands in terminal.

My laptop has two cards on eth0 and wlan0, here I’m going to change the card on eth0.

Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open up a terminal, then get started with below steps:

1.) You may run command to check you network cards, and backup original MAC address for easy to revert back.

ifconfig

2.) Turn the network card down.

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

3.) Change MAC Address:

sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE

4.) Start your network card:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

That’s it!

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    3 responses to How to Change Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu 13.04

    1. Petes March 14, 2014 at 9:30 am

      How about a permanent change?

    2. edward November 27, 2014 at 10:18 am

      non-sense, this method does not works ! the mac address resets after connecting to internet

    3. Sally November 29, 2015 at 4:38 pm

      But this change is definitive or not?