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For some experimental purpose, I like to change the mac address of an interface to multicast mac address. But linux kernel is not allowing. I am using Fedora Core 19.
Quote:
$sudo macchanger --mac=3F:29:8f:70:00:68 enp0s20u4
Current MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:68 (unknown)
Permanent MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:69 (unknown)
[ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions: Cannot assign requested address
Please tell some technique to override this. Thanks in advance.
Hi,
For some experimental purpose, I like to change the mac address of an interface to multicast mac address. But linux kernel is not allowing. I am using Fedora Core 19.
Code:
$sudo macchanger --mac=3F:29:8f:70:00:68 enp0s20u4
Current MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:68 (unknown)
Permanent MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:69 (unknown)
[ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions: Cannot assign requested address
Please tell some technique to override this. Thanks in advance.
You've been using Linux for eight years now, based on your LQ history. And you've been told about sudo before, too....your error is VERY obvious; you're running that command as a regular user, not root/sudo.
strange, TB0ne, I can see the command starts with "sudo"?
anyhow, the error says "interface up or insufficient permissions" - maybe it's about the first case?
Indeed it does; I replied too quickly. Saw the "$" prompt with an "insufficient permissions" error. Still, though...Fedora 19?? It went EOL four years ago, so not surprised problems are coming up. Or that you can't change the MAC address of an interface that's already up.
Hi,
I tried putting down the interface in root prompt. Other mac addresses work, but not the multicast ones.
Code:
[root@svtstb2end1 network-scripts]# ifconfig enp0s20u4 down
[root@svtstb2end1 network-scripts]# macchanger --mac=3F:29:8f:70:00:68 enp0s20u4
Current MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:68 (unknown)
Permanent MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:69 (unknown)
[ERROR] Could not change MAC: interface up or insufficient permissions: Cannot assign requested address
[root@svtstb2end1 network-scripts]# macchanger --mac=32:29:8f:70:00:68 enp0s20u4
Current MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:68 (unknown)
Permanent MAC: 34:29:8f:70:00:69 (unknown)
New MAC: 32:29:8f:70:00:68 (unknown)
Please suggest some solutions.
Since you say it's for 'some experimental purpose', have you read about what those addresses are, and their limitations?? Or what the components of a MAC address are? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multic...dress#Ethernet
Feel free to rewrite the kernel portions to remove the multicast limitations.
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