Changing our MAC address
In this section, we will try to change our MAC address on the Kali machine. Let's start our Kali machine and open up a Terminal. To change the MAC address, you will need to install the net-tools package. In most Linux distributions, this tool is already available. However, if it is not installed, you can install it using the following commands:
sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get install -y net-tools
It will prompt you for a password, which is kali. Once the tools have been installed, you can view the MAC address with the following command:
sudo ifconfig
If everything goes well, you will see an output similar to the following:
Figure 3.12 – ifconfig command output
There is a lot to unpack here, so let's break it down. There are two values here called eth0 and lo. eth0 is the name of the NIC, whereas lo is the loopback adapter. For now, we can ignore the loopback adapter. The inet field represents the private...
