Need to change MAC address on NETGEAR Nighthawk C7800

I left an open email relay on my machine and of course it was exploited and now my static IP is listed in sorbs and spamhaus. I have begged them to delist my IP but they said they can't and I have t...

FURRYe38
Jan 23, 2022
Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the Cable Modem products. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Cable-Modems-Routers/bd-p/home-cable-modems-routers

Please use this link to the main forum product list to review and choose where to make your posts.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/NETGEAR-Forum/ct-p/en-netgear

Thank you.

FURRYe38

Guru - Experienced User

Feb 01, 2022

Any progress on this?

epochdad
Aspirant
Feb 01, 2022
You can close it or even delete it if you want, I went to the other forum like you suggested.
- FURRYe38
  Guru - Experienced User
  Feb 01, 2022
  Did you find any information?
  - epochdad
    Aspirant
    Feb 01, 2022
    Unfortunately not. "MAC address is hardcoded with no option to spoof it"
    
    In a hacker forum someone suggested to use Open WRT for firmware to have control over this.

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Need to change MAC address on NETGEAR Nighthawk C7800