[Jamal Releford]

Hi,

I hope is well. After watching the tutorial that first introduced the subprocess.check_output method, I attempted to follow the same steps as the video and noticed that the function wasn’t changing my Mac address to the provided Mac address information. Ironically I noticed in the Wlan0 example(Can be seen at 5:52) in the video that the Mac address didn’t work as expected either. I’m not sure if Zaid caught that when he was teaching the lecture. Zaid provides -m 11:22:33:44:11 but the output from the ifconfig shows ether 3a:db:9a:35:55:6e instead.

Anyway I was wondering if you can help me in understanding how to fix this issue so that it works as intended. Thanks.

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[Jamal Releford]

Now I’ve uncommented out the change Mac function and commented out the new function that includes the subprocess. After running the code again with the old code, I get SIOCSIFHWADDR: Cannot assign requested address

[Jamal Releford]

The code appears to only provide the output from the ifconfig method but doesn’t take in the provided parameters and change the Mac address for some reason.

[Diego Pérez]

Hi!

Yeah, for the script to work you need to uncomment the change_mac function call line, can you share a screenshot with the current state of the script? Also a screenshot where we can see the command used to run the script.

Thanks!
Diego

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