Wireless Mac address

Technical Support for Routers
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After reading and googling, I cannot find my answer to how to have a fixed wireless MAC address for repeater mode and find out what it is.

I have a mt3000 with firmware 4.2

The MAC address tab shows 3 tabs
Default- doesn’t explain if default is fixed or randomized upon reboot, doesn’t show what the wireless MAC address is
Clone - doesn’t show how to clone the wireless MAC address
Manual - same thing

Without this info I cannot connect to my system

Thanks

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  • Default is going to be whatever the hardware MAC is for that interface.
  • Clone allows you to input a MAC to spoof it; used for certain ‘restrictive’ Captive Portals/Hotspots (eg: cruise ships)

uci show network will show you what you need.

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This is not helpful.
“Default is going to be whatever the hardware MAC is for that interface”.
My questions again:

  • What is the wireless mac address for default? How do I find it?
  • Does default randomize the wireless mac address each time? Yes or no please
    “Clone allows you to input a MAC to spoof it…”
    My question again:
  • How to clone the wireless MAC address? The input is to clone the wired (ethernet) address.

Can someone please help me? Thanks

4

Sure.

  1. The default 2.4G wireless mac address is the label mac address/default mac address +2
    The default 5G wireless mac address is label mac address/default mac address +3
    The same when you use wireless as WAN, which depends on the wireless radio you repeater, 2.4G or 5G

  2. No, it is fixed and it is the mac address of the wireless radio you repeater.

  3. The same. The clone option is to clone the client device you used to login the web admin panel. One another way is just type the mac address by yourself.

5

It works on both Ethernet and Repeater. there is currently an ambiguity in the design of the interface, it will be changed in the next version.

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6

Hi Sir,

I have version 4.6.2 of GL.iNet GL-MT3000 and I followed step by step this guide: Connect to a Hotspot with a Captive Portal - GL.iNet Router Docs 4

on this actual version I'm not able to select the custom configuration of the Ethernet port and/or the Repeater.

uci show network shows just the following parameters:

network.@device[2]=device
network.@device[2].name='eth0'
network.@device[2].macaddr='AA:AA:AA:BB:BB:BB'
instead of the wifi remain with the old configuration:
network.@device[3]=device
network.@device[3].name='apclix0'
network.@device[3].macaddr='C2:B3:87:4F:1D:22'

could you please advise? I would like to customize with a specific mac address the WAN interface, if both have the same mac address, it is not an issue but I need to customize the Repeater mac address in an easy way.

I tried also from uci by a message appear saying that the configuration have been rewrite from another configuration file (I don't know where). I tried also the reboot after the configuration change. No success.

Thank you!
Regards,
Dave

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Hi,

The MAC for WAN (wired), please find it in: GL GUI -> Network ->MAC address

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