Having Issues Changing Wifi0's Mac To Avoid Rouge Ap Detection

[Appletini]

I need to change the MAC address of all the wifi interfaces to avoid Rouge AP detection.

I changed ath0 fine but wifi0 has a really strange HWaddr with 10 extra sets of 00’s after the mac. The mac is also devided up with ‘ - ‘s and not ‘ : ‘s. So I are confused

This is what I am getting when I try and change the MAC

wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-12-CF-A4-47-15-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:15237 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1092

TX packets:3150 errors:647 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:195

RX bytes:1073662 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:369097 (360.4 KiB)

Interrupt:3 Memory:b0000000-b00ffffc

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig wifi0 down

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00-23-EB-2C-FC-E6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

ifconfig: invalid hw-addr 00-23-EB-2C-FC-E6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00-23-EB-2C-FC-E6

ifconfig: invalid hw-addr 00-23-EB-2C-FC-E6

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6

ifconfig: SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

ifconfig: invalid hw-addr 00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00

thanks for the help

[Netshroud]

In my experience, "Invalid argument" means the driver doesn't support it.

[Mr-Protocol]

try using macchanger.

ifconfig wifi0 down

macchanger -r wifi0

ifconfig wifi0 up

[Appletini]

OK heres what i think is happening as i do a little bit more testing...

After startup i have to connect to the router and click "Create and setup interface"

this makes ath0 (the interface that i was able to change its mac before)

When this interface is made its generating garbing the MAC of the other NIC's and using it. or something.

Once ath0 is up wifi0 comes up along with it...

So i tryed doing macchanger but that was not installed so i have to get that .. for now tho i did

ifconfig ath0 hw ether 00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6

before i went into Jasager to "Create the setup interface" and got

ifconfig: SIOCSIFHWADDR: No such device

After i did "Create ...."

I could change the mac address but then Wifi0 was already made with the wrong mac.

Is there any thing i can do . to change what Jasager sets as the mac when it makes the interface....

i am going to try changing the MAC of all my nics next

[Appletini]

Ok so i had to flash the router after i tryed changing the mac in /etc/config/network but after i flashed it again i tryed setting the mac for the lan interface

I did this in X-WRT interface, Network > Lanconfiguration, MAC Address:

This then set /etc/config/network

option 'macaddr' '00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6'

This had no result.

idk if anyone else can give me any idea's but next i think i am going to try using startup scripts to change the base lan MAC.

[swatspyder]

Ok so i had to flash the router after i tryed changing the mac in /etc/config/network but after i flashed it again i tryed setting the mac for the lan interface

I did this in X-WRT interface, Network > Lanconfiguration, MAC Address:

This then set /etc/config/network

option 'macaddr' '00:23:EB:2C:FC:E6'

This had no result.

idk if anyone else can give me any idea's but next i think i am going to try using startup scripts to change the base lan MAC.

This is from my blog. You can find the original article below. :D

Jasager (Fonera) Router – Changing the Wireless MAC Address and More

http://www.andrewdefilippis.com/2010/11/22/jasager-fonera-router-changing-the-wireless-mac-address-and-more/

1. Reboot your router (disconnect and reconnect power)

2. Connect an ethernet cable from your computer to the Fonera

3. Open a Secure Shell into your router (ssh 192.168.1.1 “The IP of the Fonera”)

4. Make sure you can ping out to the internet from your Fonera router (ping google.com)

Changing the MAC addresses:

First we are going to install “macchanger” to our Jasager (Fonera) router.

root@Jasager:/etc# cd /tmp

#This is macchanger, a tool that will allow you to easily change your MAC addresses

root@Jasager:/tmp# wget h**p://ipkg.k1k2.de/packages/macchanger_1.5.0-1_mips.ipk #remove the ** and replace with tt

root@Jasager:/tmp# ipkg install macchanger_1.5.0-1_mips.ipk

root@Jasager:/tmp# rm *.ipk

After installing macchanger, we need to modify the file "network" located at /etc/init.d/network

If you installed nano, run "nano network" otherwise run "vi network"

root@Jasager:/tmp# cd /etc/init.d

root@Jasager:/etc/init.d# cp network network.bak #Make a backup of the original file

root@Jasager:/etc/init.d# chmod 444 network.bak #Make the backup file read-only

You will need to insert two lines into the file to change the MAC address

Replace “00:11:22:33:44:55″ with a MAC of your choice (make sure they are the SAME)

root@Jasager:/etc/init.d# nano network

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common

# Copyright © 2006 OpenWrt.org

START=40

STOP=40

boot() {

setup_switch() { return 0; }

include/lib/network

setup_switch

[ -s /etc/config/wireless ] || /

/sbin/wifi detect > /etc/config/wireless

macchanger ath0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55

macchanger wifi0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55

/sbin/wifi up

}

1. Save the file, overwriting the existing file named “network” and reboot the router.

2. When the router is finished booting up, run ifconfig to confirm that ath0 and wifi0 contain the MAC address you specified.

3. Run a wireless network scanner to confirm that the router is broadcasting the new MAC address (airmon-ng and airodump-ng)

I didn’t attempt it, but you could possibly use

(ifconfig ath0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55) and

(ifconfig wifi0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55)

instead of

(macchanger ath0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55) and

(macchanger wifi0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55)

Edited December 15, 2010 by swatspyder

[digininja]

A quick note, don't copy this exactly or things won't work properly:

macchanger ath0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55

macchanger wifi0 -m 00:11:22:33:44:55

I did this once and some machines stopped talking to the machine I'd done it on, turns out that 00:11:22:33:44:55 is a broadcast address and putting it on a single interface screws up some devices.

Off the top of my head you can also specify the MAC for the new device when you use wlanconfig to create it but I might be wrong on that.

Changing the MAC address with ifconfig doesn't work for most Madwifi-ng I've tried it on so macchanger is definitely the way to go.