Search for a device by mac address terminal

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Note : I tried various MAC address changing apps for non rooted devices, but either they asked for Root access (weird), or they only supported devices using MediaTek processors.

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You can confirm the change in your MAC address, by running the following command:.Hit enter, and your MAC address will have changed. You will require a rooted device for this.

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This will get you superuser access on your Android device. Once you have the new MAC address you want to use, just follow the steps below: To get a random MAC address that you can use, just head on over to any random MAC address from this site. In the terminal, type: hostname (then hit enter/return) Find the Computer Name in. Open the terminal (in macOS, you can search for terminal via spotlight). Now that you’ve figured out the interface name for your device, you can go ahead and change the MAC address to a new value. Run /sbin/ifconfig -a The hardware address for each Ethernet interface will be listed in the output after the string 'HWaddr'. For most modern devices, the WiFi interface name will be “wlan0”, but in some cases it could be something like “eth0” as well.Ĭhange MAC address with Terminal Emulator