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kapilsangoma/mac-address
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Forked from blake-gardner/mac-address. Get, validate and generate MAC addresses.

v3.1(4y ago)04MITPHPPHP >=5.3.2

Since May 19Pushed 4y agoCompare

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PHP MAC Address
===============

[](#php-mac-address)

This is a PHP class for MAC address manipulation on top of Unix, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. it was primarily written to help with spoofing for wireless security audits.

Capabilities
------------

[](#capabilities)

- Verify you are executing it from the command line
- Verify you are running the script as an administrator
- Generate new random MAC addresses
- Validate MAC addresses
- Get the current system’s MAC address
- Set or “spoof” any MAC address you want

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
// require the class
require_once './src/BlakeGardner/MacAddress.php';

// import the class
use BlakeGardner\MacAddress;

// get the mac address of the eth0 interface
var_dump(MacAddress::getCurrentMacAddress('eth0'));

// generate a random mac address
var_dump(MacAddress::generateMacAddress());

// validate an MAC address
var_dump(MacAddress::validateMacAddress('00-B0-D0-86-BB-F7'));

// set a randomly generated MAC address on the eth0 interface
var_dump(MacAddress::setFakeMacAddress('eth0'));

// set a specific MAC address on the eth0 interface
var_dump(MacAddress::setFakeMacAddress('eth0', '00:E4:01:2C:79:DA'));

// get the mac address of the eth0 interface using the ifconfig path that we define
var_dump(MacAddress::getCurrentMacAddress('eth0', '/usr/local/sbin/ifconfig'));
echo "\n";
```

For more see the example.php file. You can run the example on the command line as root. `php example.php`

Planned Features
----------------

[](#planned-features)

- List all interfaces on the system
- OS detection
- Suppress errors on the command line

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~630 days

Recently: every ~787 days

Total

6

Last Release

1642d ago

Major Versions

2.1.4 → v3.02022-01-03

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16011413?v=4)[kapilsangoma](/maintainers/kapilsangoma)[@kapilsangoma](https://github.com/kapilsangoma)

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Top Contributors

[![kapilgupta01](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/131970355?v=4)](https://github.com/kapilgupta01 "kapilgupta01 (2 commits)")[![BlakeGardner](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/810889?v=4)](https://github.com/BlakeGardner "BlakeGardner (1 commits)")[![vsc55](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13438676?v=4)](https://github.com/vsc55 "vsc55 (1 commits)")

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Tags

addressIPMACifconfigDHCP

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