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

Here i using the code for increment MAC address of last bit after increment last bit overflow so to over come again recount from starting eg: last position is FF then after we increment by 1 we start count by 00 ----------------
#!/bin/sh mac=$(ifconfig eth0|grep HWaddr|awk '{print $5}'| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | + cut -d ':' -f1-5) maclast=$(ifconfig eth0|grep HWaddr|awk '{print $5}'| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z +]' | cut -d ':' -f6) echo "Mac address= $mac:$maclast" decmac=$(echo "ibase=16; $maclast"|bc) if [ $decmac -eq '241' ] then macinc='00' else incout=`expr $decmac + 1 ` macinc=$(echo "obase=16; $incout"|bc) fi echo "Mac address= $mac:$macinc"
OUTPUT:
Mac address= 00:19:D1:F6:F7:F1 Mac address= 00:19:D1:F6:F7:00