How can I clone a mac address on wlan0?

[Adrian Chadd]

The way I'd debug this (without being a developer) is:

* get another laptop with say an ath card;
* put that interface into monitor mode;
* tcpdump -vveni wlan0 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO | grep -v Beacon

Then try associating to the access point and see what station MAC it's
sending in its packets.




adrian

On 29 March 2011 14:38, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> For a variety of boring reasons I need to clone a mac address on wlan0. The
> documented way to do this:
>
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55:66
>
> works in the sense that it sets up the interface with that mac, but then
> the wlan0 interface never associates. Doing everything the same but omitting
> the wlanaddr argument (which causes wlan0 to use the mac of the wpi0 device)
> works.
>
> This also doesn't work in 8.2-RELEASE, so either we've got a long-standing
> bug, or I'm doing something very wrong. The wpi0 card is an intel 3945abg, I
> also have a couple of ath cards I can try (although so far they haven't
> worked either).
>
>
> Doug
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