Changing ethernet MAC address

I would like to change my macbook pro Core2Duo's ethernet MAC address. Has anyone succeded in doing that? how is it done?

Not sure why you would need to, but here yah go:
For anyone who has not noticed it ... you are now able to change the system's Ethernet card MAC adress without any third party software. Just do a:
% sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
where en0 is the network interface (numbered from en0, en1, en2 ...) and aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff is the desired MAC address in hex notation.
Be careful...

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