Change my MAC addr
 

I have a need to change my Mac address, and I thought this should work:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:50:74:E6:60:E4
ifconfig eth0 up

but when I do an ifconfig -a eth0 I get the same old mac ..

what's wrong?

:|
I wasn't aware that the mac adress can be changed...

Well, you can't change the actual MAC, but I think you can change the one that is being sent to the DHCP server.

I have deleted my dhcp .leases file of course... so it shouldn't be able to find something there.

I've never done this, but I'd imagine that your driver (if not your NIC as well) would need to support the change. It wouldn't be a permanent change anyway, for that I'd think you'd need to
make a firmware upgrade/change on the NIC itself.
I'd check out the docs on your device driver.

Sorry ... not much help ...

I'm 99.9 % sure that a Mac address cant be changed using eqipment that is available to the public - Sliptwixt is right in saying its coded into the firmware. You would probably need expensive custom made stuff to achieve it...