madmac 1.0.1

madmac: MAC address generator

MadMAC

MAC address generator library for testers.

Content

• Installation
• Usage
  • Command
  • Module

Installation

Using pip:

pip install madmac

Using source:

$ git clone https://github.com/laminko/madmac.git
$ cd madmac
$ python setup.py install

Usage

As a command

Can be used madmac as command. The following will generate random MAC address.

madmac

To see help, enter madmac --help.

madmac --help
usage: madmac [-h] [-o OUI] [-r START] [-s STOP] [-t TOTAL] [-d DELIMITER]
              [-c CASE]

MAC address generator library for testers.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUI, --oui OUI     6-digit organizationally unique identifier
  -r START, --start START
                        NIC specific start address
  -s STOP, --stop STOP  NIC specific end address
  -t TOTAL, --total TOTAL
                        Number of MACs to generate
  -d DELIMITER, --delimiter DELIMITER
                        Delimiter for MAC address
  -c CASE, --case CASE  Use lower or upper

NOTE: madmac is not a binary file. You need to install python 3.5 to execute the command.

As a module

Import MacGenerator class from madmac module. And create an object using MacGenerator and call its member generate() function. generate() function will return python generator object.

The following code will generate single MAC address using default values.

from madmac import MacGenerator

macg = MacGenerator()
macs = macg.generate()  # generator object which contains one item
from pprint import pprint
pprint(list(macs))

Default values are as follows:

# 'oui':  None,
# 'start': None,
# 'stop': None,
# 'total': 1,
# 'delimiter': ':',
# 'case': 'lower'

One can provide oui:

from madmac import MacGenerator

macg = MacGenerator(oui='F0-9F-C2')
list(macg.generate())

Also specify start address and end address if they are known:

from madmac import MacGenerator

start = '00-B0-A0'
stop = '00-B0-DF'
macg = MacGenerator(start=start, stop=stop)

NOTE: Above snippet describes to use random oui, but to use certain range from start and stop values. It will ignore total parameter. Delimiter and Case will be default values.

Sometimes, we might want to generate certain amount of MAC addresses:

from madmac import MacGenerator

macg = MacGenerator(total=100)