in reply to Re^3: How to increment a MAC Address?
in thread How to increment a MAC Address?

if $_ holds your string, then this should increment it 
$_ = join ":",unpack "A2"x6, 
       substr( ('0' x 12 . (1 + join '',split /:/,$_))),  -12)

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