modifying MAC address

Steven Honeyman stevenhoneyman at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 18:11:55 UTC 2014


On 10 November 2014 17:52, Eline Vanrykel <elinetje2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I’m using an android emulator and would like to change it’s MAC
> address. Busybox is installed and I try to modify it as follows:
>         adb shell
>         busybox ip link set dev eth0 addr 00:01:02:03:04:05
> but this always results in the following error message:
>         ip: SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy

got root? that'd be my first guess. failing that, does a "normal" apk
mac changer work? if not, you may be asking the wrong people
something like:

$ adb root
$ adb shell
[android] $ su
[android] # ifconfig eth0 down
[android] # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:01:02:03:04:05
[android] # ifconfig eth0 up


Steven.


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