We have learned many tricks so far—all about anonymity. But we’ll always try to go to a higher level. Changing the MAC address falls into that category.
In a simple way, it is your hardware address. Basically, it’s not the hardware address of your machine, but it’s the hardware address of your network card through which you’re connected to the outer world.
Let us start our Kali Linux virtual machine and open up the terminal. Issue the command: ipconfig.
It’ll produce something like this:
root@kali:∼# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.2.15 netmask ...