spoof-mac mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• spoof-mac
• spoof-mac.py

Projektgeschichte

The project README says it was created because changing a MAC address on Mac OS X was harder than it should be, especially because the Wi-Fi interface needed to be disassociated before the new address would apply. The public GitHub repository was created in 2011 and the README changelog records an original 0.0.0 version, a later rewrite to conform to PEP 8, Windows and Linux support in 1.2.0, and Python 3 support in 2.0.0.

Adoptionsgeschichte

SpoofMAC entered package-manager culture as a quick installable CLI for a task often otherwise done with platform-specific network commands. The input records Homebrew and Nix packaging, and the upstream README also documents PyPI installation with pip or easy_install.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is interactive terminal administration: list interfaces, randomize an interface address, set a specific address, or try to reset an interface back to its original address. The README also documents an optional launchd setup for macOS users who want a spoofed address applied at startup.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about SpoofMAC because it wraps divergent macOS, Linux, and Windows network behavior behind one executable. It is the kind of tiny system utility that benefits from package-manager delivery: users want it in PATH, with Python dependencies and executable names handled for them.

Zeitleiste

• 2011: GitHub repository created.
• 1.2.0: Windows and Linux support added.
• 2.0.0: Python 3 support added.
• 2018: Last recorded repository push in GitHub metadata.

Related projects

• The SpoofMAC README points to `spoof`, a Node.js port, as a related project.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/feross/SpoofMAC: official repository metadata including creation date and popularity signals.
• https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC README: motivation, install, usage, changelog, related port.
• input.source_facts.package-manager: Homebrew and Nix package-manager presence.