Some Internet service providers (ISPs) only allow devices with particular media access control (MAC) addresses to connect to the Internet.
If you’ve decided to replace your ISP’s router with a MikroTik, you may need to clone the MAC address of a wide area network (WAN) interface to the new device.
Below I will show how to change the MAC address of the MikroTik router through a command-line interface (CLI), WinBox and WebFig.
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MikroTik – Change MAC Address
Command-Line Interface
List MikroTik interfaces and their MAC addresses:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface print - sample output - Flags: R - RUNNING; S - SLAVE Columns: NAME, TYPE, ACTUAL-MTU, L2MTU, MAX-L2MTU, MAC-ADDRESS # NAME TYPE ACTUAL-MTU L2MTU MAX-L2MTU MAC-ADDRESS 0 R ether1 ether 1500 1568 9214 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F0 1 RS ether2 ether 1500 1568 9214 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F1 2 S ether3 ether 1500 1568 9214 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F2 3 S ether4 ether 1500 1568 9214 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F3 4 S ether5 ether 1500 1568 9214 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F4 ;;; defconf 5 R bridge bridge 1500 1568 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F1 6 S wifi1 wifi 1500 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F5 7 RS wifi2 wifi 1500 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F6
By default, the ether1 interface on the MikroTik routers is considered as the WAN port.
To change the interface’s MAC address, execute:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface <interfaceType> set <interfaceName> mac-address=<newMacAddress> - example - [admin@MikroTik] > /interface ether set ether1 mac-address=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:F8
To restore the interface’s default MAC address, execute:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface <interfaceType> reset-mac-address <interfaceName> - example - [admin@MikroTik] > /interface ether reset-mac-address ether1
WinBox & WebFig
In the WebFig, the MAC address of the MikroTik’s WAN interface can be changed through the “Quick Set” configuration wizard page:
The same way the WAN’s MAC address can be set in the WinBox:
