macgen 0.1

Utility to generate random MAC addresses

magcen - MAC Address Generation Utility and Library

macgen is a simple python library to facilitate the generation of MAC addresses.

Install

pip install macgen

Usage

# generate a MAC with default options (locally administered, unicast)
macgen

# generate a MAC with a dash as the separator
macgen -s -

# generate a MAC with no separator
macgen -S

# generate a local / multicast MAC
macgen -m

# generate a random global (supposedly OUI enforced) / unicast MAC
macgen -g

# generate a global / multicast MAC
macgen -mg

Planned Features

• Generate a repeatable MAC from a seed string
• Supply an OUI prefix

Development Setup

virtualenv -p python3 venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt