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How to do mac spoofing on Linux Mint 17?
Through macchanger -a I've tried to changemy mac address but new mac id doesn't authenticates successfully. pppd gives successful authentication message only when it connects to specific mac id. How can I assign that specific mac address in configuration file to make it successful authentications

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You can check if your MAC address really changed by using ifconfig and look the HWAddr value behind the appropriate device name.

What has worked for me on Mint, without any additional programs to install is using ifconfig:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

or in more permanent fashion by adding the line:

hwaddress ether 00:01:02:03:04:05

in /etc/network/interfaces, so that this MAC is set on bootup.

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