MACOF(8)

💅 MACOF — bestie's guide to flooding a switched LAN (section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, obviously)

✨ NAME ✨

macof — flood a switched LAN with random MAC addresses 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

macof [-i interface] [-s src] [-d dst] [-e tha] [-x sport] [-y dport]
[-n times]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so macof literally floods your local network with random MAC addresses, no cap. And the why is the juicy part: it makes some switches fail open in repeating mode, which lowkey means sniffing gets a whole lot easier 👀

Also bestie, some lore: this is a straight C port of the original Perl Net::RawIP macof program, written by Ian Vitek <ian.vitek@infosec.se>. iconic behavior, we love a port 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -i interface — pick which interface to send on, bestie 🫶
• -s src — set the source IP address ✨
• -d dst — set the destination IP address 💫
• -e tha — set the target hardware address 🎯
• -x sport — set the TCP source port 🌈
• -y dport — set the TCP destination port ⭐
• -n times — set how many packets to send, go off 👑

fr fr: any option you leave unspecified? its value just gets generated randomly. chaos mode activated 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• dsniff(8) — go read it, iykyk 📖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org> — the main character who made this happen, periodt 🌟

k bye bestie, that's the whole page — macof, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, straight from Dug Song. go forth and be iconic, and remember: random values for anything you didn't specify 💜