How To Spoof Your MAC Address

[SealLion]

OBJECTIVE:

In this tutorial, you will learn the following:


A. what specifically a MAC Address is;

B. why one would want to change his MAC Address;

C. and demonstrate how to alter (spoof ) your own MAC Address ( for the sake of learning how to do it yourself);

D. finding alternative (softwares) to spoof your MAC address for you.



To gain full benefit of this tutorial, its important that you read the full tutorial in its entirety. There's no sense in directing yourself to the "How To Change MAC Address' portion of this tutorial , if you don't even know what it is in the first place, let alone why you'd want to change it.


Its a lengthy tutorial, but you'll gain knowledge if you read it in its entirety. So take your time to understand this thing.





WHAT IS A MAC ADDRESS:


Simply put, your computer's MAC Address an identifier element that consists of a six byte number identifier that is attached to most Network Adapter Cards or otherwise also known as a Network Interface Card (NIC).

You see, all network cards, whether they are Ethernet NIC's or Wireless Networks, WiFi or even HiperLAN adapters, all have different MAC addresses.


The MAC Address on your computer is a burnt and imprinted element on your computer's Network Card.


You can't physically change it, only spoof it.


In your computer's OS, your MAC address is represented by a 12-digit hexadecimal number. Here's an example, 1A-2B-3C-4D-5E-6F.


WHY CHANGE A MAC ADDRESS:



There's a few reasons why one would desire to change his/ her MAC Address or the Network Adapter. Changing one's MAC Address is known as MAC spoofing.

Here's an example:

To get past a tracker's IRC IP and MAC Address filtering to request a free invite from Tracker ABC.

Such a trick can be used to get pass the Network Access restriction by emulating a new unrestricted MAC address, or to gain an access connection by spoofing an authorized MAC address after sniffing for a legitimate MAC address out of the air in MAC filtering in a Wi-Fi network.


Changing a MAC address can keep the real and genuine information from been detected and logged by various services such as an IDS (an Intrusion Detection Service), a firewall, a DHCP server, a wireless access points. Its also essential to protect a user’s privacy.

You should be aware that MAC spoofing can also potentially trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by causing a routing problem while duplicating a MAC address that already exists in the network, especially those that are similar to gateways.



Now. The good part.


HOW TO SPOOF YOUR MAC ADDRESS:




WINDOWS:


Go to Start -> Control Panel. Double click on Network Connections (inside Network and Internet Connections category in Windows XP).

Then, you'll need to right click on the Active Network Connection with network adapter that you want to change the MAC address (normally Local Area Network or Wireless Network Connection) and click on Properties.



Excuse my sense of privacy throughout this tutorial. Too many bad people on the internet that want to Ban-Hammer me.




The arrows in this tutorial help direct to where you need to look.



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Your MAC address consists of 6 pairs of numbers (0 - 9) and characters (A - F) combination.

Here's an example, 88-17-E8-90-E2-0A. When entering the new MAC value, omit the dash (-), for example 8817E890E20A.




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By default, the “Not Present” radio button is selected. Change the value by clicking on the radio button for Value:, and then type in a new MAC address to assign to the NIC.

Take your pick as to what you want.

Ensure that you have at minimum 3 letters of the alphabet selected.

When your done selecting your new value, click 'OK'.



Now, for For Windows Vista, access to the NIC’s properties is from Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center -> Manage Network Connections.



VERIFING THE CHANGE IN MAC ADDRESS:


Go to the CMD prompt, and type in one of the following commands:



A. net config rdr

B. ipconfig /all



EXAMPLE using
net config rdr:


Again, (A): The arrows help point to where you need to look and (B): Excuse my sense of privacy .





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EXAMPLE 2 using ipconfig /all:




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ALTERNATIVE METHODS:



There are third party tools and utilities that help to change the MAC address in Windows OS. There are plenty that exist.



For example: SMAC , Macshift , BMAC, Mac MakeUp , MadMACs (MAC Address Spoofing And Host Name Randomizing App For Windows, EtherChange , and Technitium MAC Address Changer.



DISCLAIMER:


1. If you screw up your computer using any tool that I've mentioned in the list or the hack that I've demonstrated in the above tutorial to help you safely get past IP and MAC Address bans at various trackers. Its your fault. Not mine.

2. You either didn't know what you were doing, weren't reading it all, or are simply a computer noob ( or, er....computer NOB?? ):confused:

3. Even if your computer blows full force in your face after successfully spoofing your MAC Address, you still can't blame me.



There are other methods that exist to changing or spoofing one's MAC Address. That other method includes going into the registry. Its a little more complicated but definitly NOT hard.

If you'd like that method to be tutored, please do let me know one way or another.

Apparantly, methods do exist to spoof one's MAC Address in Unix/ Linux systems.



If you like this tutorial, please do say thanks. It gives me an idea if what I'm tutoring is helpful or not.





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[Renk]

Thanks for this very good tuto. But a point remains unclear to me. You quote "You can't physically change it, only spoof it", but then you write "HOW TO PHYSICALLY CHANGE YOUR MAC ADDRESS", with seems a bit contradictory. Moreover, I would like to understand a bit more about the connection between anonymity and Mac address spoofing: In clear, could some antip2p people indentify me through my mac address ? If so, have I some advantage to spoof my mac address (in other words: if I spoof my mac address, would antip2p people have some mean to see my "physically" mac address, or could they only access to the spoofed one ?).

Ps: I have found this software:
Technitium MAC Address Changer v5 (FREEWARE) (http://www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html)

What do you think about it ?

[anon]

Moreover, I would like to understand a bit more about the connection between anonymity and Mac address spoofing: In clear, could some antip2p people indentify me through my mac address ? If so, have I some advantage to spoof my mac address (in other words: if I spoof my mac address, would antip2p people have some mean to see my "physically" mac address, or could they only access to the spoofed one ?).

That's a very good question. From my experiences, when you spoof your MAC address, all programs will see the new, fake one, and won't be able to know the real one. However, it's possible that anti-P2P groups have coded a tool that works around that, so in my opinion there's no clear answer.

Also, remember that after changing your MAC, you'll either be given a new IP, your ISP may not recognize the new one without a router/modem restart and therefore Windows get stuck at "getting network address"; or, if you have an static IP, this method may not work at all for you (i.e. you'll be able to spoof your MAC, but will never get your connection working).

[SealLion]

I guess I should have been more clearer with respect to 'Changing your MAC Address'.

The interpretation of that statement is that your going to the Properties
section that I've outlined for you to go to and your, yourself are physically altering the MAC Address within your computer as specified in the tutorial.

In other words, your letting your fingers do the walking.
You, yourself are doing the work as opposed to some software.


That is the essence of the statement 'Physically changing your MAC Address".


Yes. Of course your not physically changing it to something completely new so that you wind up with a brand new MAC Address, your altering it (physically altering/ spoofing it, that is while your poking around your computer. That's what I mean. ) in the sense of spoofing / faking the one that's burnt to your machine and using a fake MAC Address.

Hope that clears things up.

And about the Technitium software. What I like about that one is that it gives the user a few extra MAC Address's to choose from. A little more than SMAC does.

It has an updated, or at least the latest list of all known manufacturers that you can choose from.

as a user, you can also enter any MAC address and know which manufacturer it comes from.

Essentially, it works the same as others do.


But don't let a lack of MAC Address that SMAC may be limited to dissuade you. It also does the job it's designed to do.

It basically makes a change in the registry, as do all others so that your MAC Address is spoofed. You could do this yourself and I was actually thinking of adding this to the tutorial, but I decided against it for the moment.

The only reason why I would have added this is for the sake of learning potential. Much the same as the reason why I made up this tutorial. As opposed to having some software do it for you.

Learing can be fun. And that's why I did this tut.


EDIT: There is actually a way to physically change your machine's MAC Address.

It basically entials in having to remove the flash chip from your computer's NIC card.
You then have to re-program it with a completely new MAC address.

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[hackvish]

is the IP address and MAC address the same? What is the difference between them?

[anon]

An IP address is the one other hosts can use to contact you.

A MAC address is your network card's unique identifier.

[Aurion]

What a nice & handy tutorial you're reviewing here SealLion.Actually I might use this guide when time comes.

[anon]

Reviewing? :tongue:

[splicer]

If you want a MAC address generator, eg you are too lazy to think (like myself), then here you go. I was worried I wouldn't properly think-up a MAC address and went in search of a simple generator; in my searches I was guided to a forum post. One of the replies contained a link to this generator, which I found useful. I recall reading that there was no homepage, and that the poster who provided the link, did not want the generator to just die off.

http://i41.tinypic.com/1z1ba0i.jpg

I'm fairly confident there is no copyright on it, and the author even joked (right click Macgen.exe > Properties > Details > Copyright) "free to do whatever you like to it", so I see no reason why it can't be posted.

Just remove the colons, the ":", for use with this guide.

[kazuya]

this little prog. can do this all very simple and fast:wink2:



http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9004/24811980.png

You can download it from Demonoid,it's only one there. ps. with working keygen also:wink2:

[anon]

Macshift also has a command-line parameter to generate a random MAC and it's free :wink:

[Stickbutt]

If anyone is looking for another tool, MadMACs (http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/madmacs-mac-spoofer) has not failed me yet. It, plus the MacGen posted above, are all you need to spoof a new MAC. I've no router, so I cannot say how this will work with one. YMMV.

[nishant]

Is your MAC address revealed/logged when you use a web browser? I was banned from what.cd months ago, and I'm afraid of rejoin (despite numerous ways to get an invite) b/c of the MAC address thing. I know that there was a fiasco with Melvinmeow where everyone got banned from a lot of trackers after visiting the BCG/what.cd IRC, so I thought maybe they can only detect your MAC address if you join the irc.

Is it safe for me (using proxies obviously) to rejoin what.cd? Can they detect your mac address via your announce?

[SealLion]

@ Nishant:

What happens is they basically use a protocol analyzer, you see.
They do this to determine which MAC addresses are in use on a network.

I don't believe your MAC addy is revealed when browsing. Unless the protocol analyzer is configured so.
Otherwise your IP is identifiable.

Your IP is logged by various marketers, for example. Such as when you go to a link that displays your IP.

So with respect to browsing, your IP is logged, but I don't believe that your MAC addy is logged.
Agian, the protocol analyzer would have to be configured a little more differently, though that would not be difficult for some site (someone will have to correct me if I"m wrong with the above statement if they are more knowledgeable on this specific subject).


Anyways, you can get software that'll change your real Internet address while browsing.

There are many:

such as
Invisible IP Map 2.7 Get

I've seen it here:

FileGets: Download Invisible IP Map Software latest version from author site (http://filegets.com/get/invisible-ip-map.html)

and of course, there is this of which I'm sure that you've heard of before:

FileGets: Shareware Hide IP Platinum 3.43 Details at Internet category by Volcano Force (http://filegets.com/info/hide-ip-platinum.html)



the best thing, in my mind, would be to do the IPConfig-thing which is basically where you change your IP completely as well as the cache.

You do the following in the cmd window:



ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Also clear your browser's cache.

I would reccommend this.

Other's may state it's not necessary, but in my experience, I have found it necessary as I was still identified from a previous visit.

This was due to a cookie still inside my browser.



Now with you being identified via your announce, perhaps...if you didn't change your IP, that is.

Can you also be identified via your announce through your MAC address??

I have no idea, though it could be possible. Again, it would also depend on What.CD's announce configuration.

If their configuration identifies both the IP and the MAC addy during the announce, then I'm sorry. :frown:





@Stikkbutt: I believe MadMACS is already listed in the list I provided in my tutorial. :smile:




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[DriftKing]

I use a-mac address changer for change my mac address for connect my negihborus high speed connection when he sleep at night ( we have same ISP so not prob at all :biggrin::tongue:)

[Stickbutt]

@Stikkbutt: I believe MadMACS is already listed in the list I provided in my tutorial. :smile:


Sorry I tried to help. Won't make that mistake again.

[SealLion]

LOL. No worries at all, Stickbutt.
No worries at all. :smile:

[Dark Knight]

ok i Read your Tutorial. i have few questions for you & others also..

1. can i enter any random Alpha-Numeric Combination as my New Spoofed Mac Address? or is it better to Stay With the MacGen.exe provided by Splicer?

2. Do i have to Also reconfigure my Router/Modem setting? or What is Router Spoofing?

3. and lol, what do u mean by 3rd point of your Disclaimer?

[SealLion]

you can actually change your MAC addy by putting in 'Imacheater' if you want.
You can put in an alpha-numeric also if you want.
Shouldn't be much of a difference.

about router spoofing...well, as you know the router is the gateway for the host it's spoofing,yes??

You see if there isn't a route in one direction, then most likely there is no route in the other direction.

But to straight forward in answering your question: the router's mac addy stays the same for the lan side but it is broadcasting a different mac address to you ISP. It'll be valid for any one host to assume a MAC address of a system that's configured as the router remains valid for a long period of time.

So in essence, I don't believe so.

Have a look around and ask Google-god to see what he can come up for you.
Google-god is a nice guy. :smile:


and about the third entry:

You see, if and when you do any of this stuff AND your comp blows up and hits the ceiling and splatters your dinner plate with all it's yummy food all over the ceiling too and then hits you square on the top of your head....you still can't blame me. :D

[anon]

1. can i enter any random Alpha-Numeric Combination as my New Spoofed Mac Address?

No, you can't. It has to be six hex bytes, i.e. 12 digits going from 0 to 9 and A to F.


2. Do i have to Also reconfigure my Router/Modem setting? or What is Router Spoofing?

I'm no router expert, but as far as I know, if you're using one, there should be an option for MAC cloning on its Web interface. Enable it, then spoof your network card's MAC address. Your router should use the new one, which as SealLion said, is the one your ISP will see.

[SealLion]

Yup. I stand corrected then re: MAC addy's combination.

I read somewhere...can't recall where though that someone input into thier machine a fake MAC addy and had it as a sentence of some sort.
Oh, well. Doesn't matter, though.

[anon]

I read somewhere...can't recall where though that someone input into thier machine a fake MAC addy and had it as a sentence of some sort.

That could be because he was using leetspeak or only letters from A to F :biggrin:

[SealLion]

well, maybe that's why. Using leetspeak, then.

[ooblar]

Macshift also has a command-line parameter to generate a random MAC and it's free :wink:

Also found this command which will create them in bash.


for x in {252..255};do for y in {0..255};do for z in {0..255};do printf "00:14:4F:%X:%X:%X\n" $x $y $z;done;done;done >> MAC.list

[SealLion]

putting that inside the software (Macshift) you mean??

HOw has it worked for you when inputting that inside Macshift's command line parameter??

have you been successful with it??

[anon]

putting that inside the software (Macshift) you mean??

HOw has it worked for you when inputting that inside Macshift's command line parameter??

That's for Linux :happy:

[Instab]

putting that inside the software (Macshift) you mean??

HOw has it worked for you when inputting that inside Macshift's command line parameter??

have you been successful with it??


That's for Linux :happy:

both wrong :P

that's just a one-liner for the terminal. it can be executed on any unix and since osx is based on bsd it'll work there, too

[grebetu]

I don't see that bash command randomizing anything tho, it just dumps range of possible MACS to file.

[Instab]

I don't see that bash command randomizing anything tho, it just dumps range of possible MACS to file.

that's right, so?

and for the record that's not limited to bash. other shells can do that, too.

[grebetu]

that's right, so?
so it doesn't generate random macs.


and for the record that's not limited to bash. other shells can do that, too.
that's right, so? synthax between shells isn't the same. that's why they have different names.

[Instab]

that's right, so? synthax between shells isn't the same.

well it depends on the shells. ksh or csh based. etc. some bash stuff works in zsh as well ...
but no need to weary the others :P

[ooblar]

so it doesn't generate random macs.

Doesn't matter. Just open up MAC.list (or whatever you name it) and just choose one. There are a ton to choose from.

[grebetu]

Sorry man, I don't want to sound like a jerk, but that's like making a shell script to write down numbers from 1-100 into text file then opening it to choose a number from 1-100.

[mangathala2002]

Finally i know the reason why i'm not able to get into TL's IRC :smile:

But after reading your "DISCLAIMER" I think i will first try it out on ubuntu or something

Btw if i spoof my MAC address in ubuntu will the changes affect windows also? Or will windows still have the old MAC address?

[anon]

But after reading your "DISCLAIMER" I think i will first try it out on ubuntu or something

Don't worry, chances your computer will explode when changing the MAC are minimal.


Btw if i spoof my MAC address in ubuntu will the changes affect windows also? Or will windows still have the old MAC address?

Spoofing the MAC address via software methods like the one in this tutorial will only affect the OS you've done it on.

[mangathala2002]

Apparantly, methods do exist to spoof one's MAC Address in Unix/ Linux systems.

Here's the temp method that works on ubuntu

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
ifconfig eth0 up

source:Change MAC address in Ubuntu temporarily (http://share-facts.blogspot.com/2009/02/change-mac-address-in-ubuntu.html) :smile:

[Instab]

Here's the temp method that works on ubuntu

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06
ifconfig eth0 up

the 'hw' option of 'ifconfig' should be available on almost any more or less current linux

[anon]

ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:02:03:04:05:06

It's better not to change your MAC to such a completely different one, your ISP may not recognize it afterwards (happened to me). Usually just editing the last byte should be enough.

[AsusGraphics]

Hello, I am a newcomer for this good and informative forum. It's very nice that I found it - really! :D

To the point: why to spoof mac address. I have understood they aren't routed to web - correct?

[anon]

To the point: why to spoof mac address?

To change your IP, a vital measure when you're reregistering at a tracker or want to keep multiple accounts.

[AsusGraphics]

If I am using a vpn connection, my ip is changed and they can't get the mac address; the guys who are running the tracker, I mean.

Same thing happens to (mac) if you use a router without a vpn, right?

[anon]

You should know we aren't 100% sure of whether they can get your MAC. They probably can't.

But in the router case, they'd get the router's address, yes.

[Renk]

You should know we aren't 100% sure of whether they can get your MAC. They probably can't.

But in the router case, they'd get the router's address, yes.

And if I use a router and a VPN, my VPN provider will always see my router's mac address, right ?

In this kind of configuration, have I some advantage to use mac spoofing tools ?

[Instab]

And if I use a router and a VPN, my VPN provider will always see my router's mac address, right ?

In this kind of configuration, have I some advantage to use mac spoofing tools ?

well, if you're using a vpn your own mac is not relevant

[anon]

And if I use a router and a VPN, my VPN provider will always see my router's mac address, right ?

As far as I know, yes.


In this kind of configuration, have I some advantage to use mac spoofing tools ?

Well, not letting the provider know your real MAC, maybe? But that's cosmetic at most, unless you're really paranoid.

[Renk]

Well, not letting the provider know your real MAC, maybe?


You exactly understood what I meant.





unless you're really paranoid.

Ahem... It was only a theoretical question, of course :biggrin:



And as Andy Groove said: "only paranoids survive".... :eek13:


(But one of my friends recently argued that the true meaning was slightly different: "paronoids only survive"...)

[C3PO]

That MAC spoofing thing didn't work for me, may be it changes, but my IP is till the same and afaik I don't have static IP (95% sure). I have a modem which is conn to a router and the PC is conn to the router, tried to change the IP form the router,too, nothing happened...Ideas?

[anon]

Try the following procedure:

enable MAC cloning in your router
disable your connection via "Network Connections"
change your network card's MAC
power cycle your modem and router
enable your connection

[SealLion]

Is he looking to alter his IP or spoof his MAC....2 different things??

His external IP remains the same. Because from what I understand (correct me if I"m wrong) but MAC addressing is from Layer 2 of this thing called an OSI model ( Open Systems Interconnection model) . ---This is basically dividing communication's systmes into different layers.


So in that particular case your IP provider can use a MAC address to push a IP address to you (being Layer 3) as the IP provider's DHCP servers works with known MAC addresses.

So if he's looking to genuinely alter his IP, there is an excellent script here that was made by one of our members and it works superbly if followed-to-the-letter:


http://www.sb-innovation.de/f59/ip-address-changer-bat-using-ipconfig-xp-11336/

thanks go out to 'toxinnz" for this script.

But if he's looking to spoof his MAC adress, then it's either this tutorial or one of the MAC address spoofing softwares that I mention in the first post of my tutorial.

[Instab]

So if he's looking to genuinely alter his IP, there is an excellent script here that was made by one of our members and it works superbly if followed-to-the-letter:



thanks go out to 'toxinnz" for this script.

this dös only work if the connection is made by the os and only works for windows. so if you got a router and/or not windows don't bother.

everyone else should definitely have a look :D

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for the record: this dös change the ip, not the mac address.

[SealLion]

T........ I have a modem which is conn to a router and the PC is conn to the router, ......


....... so if you got a router and/or not windows don't bother.

.....

To bad, then. That script by toxinnz won't work for him, then :frown:

[anon]

toxinnz's script won't work if your ISP caches MAC addresses, either.

[C3PO]

10q all, anon's method worked like a charm :top:

[donkeykong]

ok I did it but will that ever help if I get banned from a tracker?

I mean besides the IRC, what if I get banned from a tracker due to cheating, could I go back and re-register after that?

I have a static IP so it's not a matter of just restarting the modem

[anon]

ok I did it but will that ever help if I get banned from a tracker?

I mean besides the IRC, what if I get banned from a tracker due to cheating, could I go back and re-register after that?

That's why we have this amazing thread:
http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?threadid=19023

Read it and all doubts should be cleared.

[Master Razor]

Whenever I try to change my mac address, my pppoe connection disconects and am unable to connect again until i remove the spoofed mac. Any way around this?

[anon]

Your ISP isn't recognizing the new MAC. Did you try power cycling your modem/router?

[Master Razor]

My cable comes directly from outside so I don't have any rooter/modem.

[anon]

My cable comes directly from outside

I never saw anything like that...

Try rebooting your PC or turning it off for a while and then on, I'd say...

[Instab]

My cable comes directly from outside so I don't have any rooter/modem.

what kind of connection is that? i mean how is it called by the isp?

[anon]

what kind of connection is that? i mean how is it called by the isp?

Ever heard of fiber-to-the-home? Well, this is cable-from-the-wall.

[Instab]

Ever heard of fiber-to-the-home? Well, this is cable-from-the-wall.

:lol:
well, if that's seriously the case he might have bad luck regarding the ip change

[austin316]

i cant find network address in advanced tab under wireless network connection. Anyone know.

[anon]

There's around a zillion free programs that can change your MAC regardless of if its driver allows for that in its properties sheet. I hope you can use Google or any other search engine, otherwise you're doomed...

[austin316]

but isnt it simplier following the tutorial, whats the best free program.

[SealLion]

Go to your Control Panel and select System>Advanced>Performance and activate "use common tasks" . ( For some people, depending on what they're asking, sometimes I think this should read " Use common sense")

If this fails, read:


MicroS**t support network. Dial Us for all your problems. (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825826)

I don't know all that's going on, on your computer but you may want to check out Method 3 or 4.

If that fails, then follow these instructions that I've numbered in order:


1.Start menu> Control Panel;
2.. > Network>Internet Connections;
3.. >Network Connections link.
4.. Right-click on local area connection.
5.. Select Disconnect from Ethernet Bridge.
6.. Close all windows.

The Ethernet Bridge connection might be related to you using a virtual machine on your computer.

What do you mean 'what's the best free program??!!"...ever heard of some guy who calls himself 'Google"?
He answers all your questions. Ask him about 'reviews' and he'll understand. See above about the 'common sense' thing I mentioned.

[austin316]

As i couldnt get the tutorial to work i downloaded a free program called technitium mac changer, i successfully changed mac address but when i checked my ip address, it was the same ip address, why didnt the ip address change. The site i want to access will ban me if i register again.

[SealLion]

Try one of the ip change scripts found on this forum. There's one called Quick IP changer.bat. Link: Ip changing .bat file link (http://www.sb-innovation.de/f59/ip-address-changer-bat-using-ipconfig-xp-11336/)

What I've found with this program is that, if you have OpenDNS installed, it seems to interfere ( at least it does for me. Maybe not for you), so release your network from using OpenDNS and then try the script again.

Something else that I"ve discovered when I'm trying to change my IP is that my ISP seems to have some kind of 'hold' on changing IPs when manually requested by their users via; for example, the above named .bat file. I have no idea if this is even true or not, but I've noticed that in the past when I wanted to change my IP, it wasn't changed until about a few days to a week later. Strange, huh??

If that doesn't work for you, then look at anon's sig. There's one there.
If that doesn't work for you, try a proxy.
If that doesn't work for you, try the trackers' IRC and beg forgiveness.
If that doesn't work for you ask yourself if doing all of this is actually all that important to you. Can you make do with some other site, instead??

I'm trying to be helpful here.

[austin316]

Really appreciate your help seallion. i used quickip changer, it said it changed ip address, but when i checked the ip address it was still the same. Im pretty sure my ip address is dynamic, am i doing something wrong.

[SealLion]

.... am i doing something wrong.

1. Close browser.
2. Clear cache and cookies.
3. Check again....No go??..., then...
4. Re-read other options provided above.
5. Still no go??....Then...
6. Copy this file I found to notepad (or something similiar)
7. Re-name to .bat extension
8. Go to Network Connections and see what kind of connection you have. Remember this.
9. Run .bat file.



@echo off
echo Choose:
echo [A] Set Static IP
echo [B] Set DHCP
echo.
:choice
SET /P C=[A,B]?
for %%? in (A) do if /I "%C%"=="%%?" goto A
for %%? in (B) do if /I "%C%"=="%%?" goto B
goto choice
:A
@echo off
echo "Please enter Static IP Address Information"
echo "Static IP Address:"
set /p IP_Addr=

echo "Default Gateway:"
set /p D_Gate=

echo "Subnet Mask:"
set /p Sub_Mask=

echo "Setting Static IP Information"
netsh interface ip set address "LAN" static %IP_Addr% %Sub_Mask% %D_Gate% 1
netsh int ip show config
pause
goto end

:B
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Resetting IP Address and Subnet Mask For DHCP
netsh int ip set address name = "LAN" source = dhcp

ipconfig /renew

ECHO Here are the new settings for %computername%:
netsh int ip show config

pause
goto end
:end

I haven't tried it myself. Though it's similar to anon's. Try his first.

[austin316]

you want me to clear cache and cookies from browser. Would i need to do ipconfig/flush. Once again thx for helping.

[SealLion]

From the browser of course. Tools>Clear Recent History.

[austin316]

well ip wasnt renewed when clearing browse cache and cookies, i did copy that file as a .bat but it says set static ip and set DHCP. Whats up with this.

[SealLion]

Sorry.
My bad.
I gave you the wrong one. I had a different one intentioned. Scrap that one. You can use the one that's listed in our beloved, holy-than-thou, most spirited, all-powerful and omniscient, most gratuitous, all glowy, and ever-and-forever-knowing moderator, anon. It's in the sig.

This should solve all your problems and get it done with. I did mention this earlier as well in one of the posts, too.

Also, I'm just curious. When you go to Network Connections>Right Click>Status>Support>Details. What are the lease initiation and expiration days. Are they recent and close to expiration??

I'm asking because each time I used the first IP changing. bat file, it would change in a short while( a few days hence).
It may or may not be same with you. Just asking.

[Damnsel]

Quick question. I am using a modem to connect to the internet (it supports spoofing and dynamic ip on reset) So, when i visit a website, will it not see the modem's MAC instead of my NIC. If that is the case, i suppose only spoofing the modem's MAC should suffice right? (since i am behind the modem and access the internet through it)

[shoulder]

A website won't see your MAC at all.

[Damnsel]

Ok, then while browsing, what parameters are actually made visible to them, besides the IP and the user agent/browser. Do they see a hostname of sorts? (Sorry, im still getting the hang of things)

[anon]

A website won't see your MAC at all.

While generally true, it is possible for your MAC and even LAN configuration to be sent to a site if you let it run Java applets.

That takes me to the following point:


Ok, then while browsing, what parameters are actually made visible to them, besides the IP and the user agent/browser. Do they see a hostname of sorts? (Sorry, im still getting the hang of things)

You would be surprised at the amount of data the average browser leaks. I will leave a few links here for you to read.

Anonymity test (basic) (http://www.ip.cc/check-proxy-basic.php)
IP check (http://ip-check.info/?lang=en)
Panopticlick (http://panopticlick.eff.org/)
BrowserSpy.dk (http://browserspy.dk/)

Enabling JavaScript, cookies, Flash and Java on a per-site basis will eliminate many of these concerns. The rest are rather hard to address if your browser isn't Firefox (I once built a really secure Fx setup, but had to change back to Opera due to slow speeds :wfrown:).

I won't lie to you: if you're an average user, your reaction to doing the above things will be negative, because many places require JS and cookies to work. But you can add exceptions for all your favorite sites, and then it gets better from there.

[THC]

Anonymity test (basic) (http://www.ip.cc/check-proxy-basic.php)
IP check (http://ip-check.info/?lang=en)
Panopticlick (http://panopticlick.eff.org/)
BrowserSpy.dk (http://browserspy.dk/)


Holy shit! They know everything :lol:

[anon]

I found something interesting yesterday. If you're using a wireless connection and MAC-changing tools don't seem to work on it, read on.

Apparently, some manufacturers disallow this as a way to mitigate malicious usage. In this case, a workaround is only using MACs where the second bit is set to 1. This (http://blog.technitium.com/2011/05/tmac-issue-with-wireless-network.html) article explains it better than I could.

The following batch file can be used to generate a fraction of all possible random MAC addresses which comply with that requirement, then use macshift to apply them.


@echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set INTERFACE=Wireless Network Connection
rem Change that if you've renamed it or have multiple NICs
echo Press a key to continue.
pause > nul
echo Creating random MAC address...
rem Copyright http://jakash3.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/random-string-generator-bat/#comment-321
set len=1
set alphanum=AE26
:getChar1
set /a index=%random%*4/32767
set out=%out%!alphanum:~%index%,1!
set /a len-=1
if %len% GTR 0 GOTO getChar1
set MAC=0%out%
set len=9
set alphanum=ABCDEF0123456789
:getChar2
set /a index=%random%*16/32767
set out=%out%!alphanum:~%index%,1!
set /a len-=1
if %len% GTR 0 GOTO getChar2
set MAC=%MAC%%out%
macshift.exe -i "%INTERFACE%" %MAC% | find /i "Setting MAC"
echo Press any key to exit...
pause > nul

---------- Post Merged at 14:45 ---------- Previous Post was at 14:08 ----------

Bonus track: here (http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt)'s a list of allocated Organizationally Unique Identifiers.

[Esperanza]

Digging it up.

I get why one would change his modem MAC. But is there any point to change your local machine MAC ?

[anon]

is there any point to change your local machine MAC ?


Evade limitations enforced by checking your MAC address (like the free data traffic on Hotspot Shield)
Concealing your network controller's manufacturers from software and other people on your network
Because you can

[8inchfreshman]

Windows 10 prevents MAC address spoofing via registry. Unless your NIC _specifically_ has this feature you are boned.

[anon]

Did you check if it's the same thing I mentioned in post no. 80?

[latres]

technitium mac address changer seems to just get the job done, at least for me. Pure spoofing.

[Master Razor]

technitium mac address changer seems to just get the job done, at least for me. Pure spoofing.
Did you tested on Windows 10?

[latres]

Did you tested on Windows 10?

Nope, still only on windows 7...

[Master Razor]

I know. technitium was the best of its time. And it worked fine on 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 but I don't know if it works on 10.

[anon]

A MAC changer sets a registry value and resets the network adapter (everything else is extra functionality). This tells Windows the new address is to be used, but I don't know how the workflow goes from there. I know drivers can reject MACs that don't have the locally-administered bit set, and they may also be able to ignore the NetworkAddress value altogether and disallow MAC spoofing.

I don't have a Windows 10 system to test this on, so I'd also appreciate feedback on that regard.

[latres]

Needless to mention you everyone should also enable the option in Ublock Origin settings ''Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP addresses''...

[anon]

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium has WebRTC turned off directly in the binary :richter: