genmac provides a program for producing a random MAC address. You can specify, via command line options, what kind of address to generate.
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Homepage: http://linuxbox.fi/~vmj/genmac/
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Download: http://linuxbox.fi/~vmj/genmac/archive/
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Source code: http://github.com/vmj/genmac
The program genmac(1) produces a single MAC address. Following shows a typical invocation:
$ genmac --local --unicast --eui48
At runtime, standard C libraries.
To compile, CMake, a C compiler and standard C headers are required. CMake will generate platform specific build files, so platform specific build environment is required. For Unix type of systems like Linux, a 'make' command is enough.
To rebuild the documentations, AsciiDoc and xmlto are required.
On Debian based systems, you can install asciidoc and xmlto packages.
On Slackware, linuxdoc-tools contains both the asciidoc and xmlto tools.
Download and extract the source distribution. This project is using CMake as the build tool. To build and install the project, issue the following commands:
$ mkdir build # (1) $ cd build # (2) $ cmake ../ # (3) $ cmake --build . # (4) $ make install # (5)
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Create an out-of-source build directory
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Change the current working directory to the new directory
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Generate the platform specific build files (the '../' is the path to the extracted source; it does not have to be the parent directory as in the example above)
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Build the project
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Install the binaries and documentation
By default, the binaries are installed in '/usr/local/bin' and the manual is installed in '/usr/local/man/man1'.
In order to install in some other prefix than '/usr/local',
use the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX cache variable in step 3 like so:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../.
The 'bin' and 'man' paths under the installation prefix can also be changed
using the BINDIR, MANDIR, and MAN1DIR cache variables.
Their value must be relative to the installation prefix.
During the installation (step 5),
a staged installation can be achieved by defining the DESTDIR environment variable.
For example: make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package-genmac.
For more details, read the CMake manuals.
Original author and current maintainer is Mikko Värri (mikko@varri.fi).