What does HackerNews think of iproute2mac?
CLI wrapper for basic network utilites on Mac OS X inspired with iproute2 on Linux systems - ip command.
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There's a python script that does a passable impression of `ip`
brew install iproute2mac
Looks like you can uses these commands if you've got iproute2mac[0] installed.
ip link set dev en0 address 00:12:34:45:78:90
ip link set en0 address random
ip link set en0 address factory
It looks like iproute2mac[0] will let you change your MAC address. It can even set a random one.
Could you try if it works on your Apple device?
Your criticism is valid, but its possible to get compatibility between macOS (or another BSD) and Linux. GNU utilities are already mentioned but there's also, for example,
> What about `lsblk` or `ip`?
For a (partly compatible) equivalent to ip I can recommend iproute2mac [1]. You can also use the old utilities from BSD (ifconfig, route, etc) or the GUI.
For lsblk I found no drop-in replacement, just equivalents [2]
On top of that, Nix works on Linux and macOS.
[1] https://github.com/brona/iproute2mac
[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/107953/list-all-de...