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nitwhiz
7y

OMFG network-manager randomizes the mac of wlan0. And it ignores me turning this "feature" off. WHAT THE HELL MAN

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  • 1
    o_o randomizes mac.... first time I've heard that, maybe I just haven't noticed it before but... that is weeeeird, like really, properly weird
  • 0
    If the wireless switch demands your netman to randomize the MAC, then it has to randomize the MAC!
    If you think about it, it's a pretty good security feature.. almost similar to how your phone's identification is handled by GSM towers.
  • 2
    @D3add3d guess how my jaw dropped seeing 20 leases for the same device but different mac/ip in my router + me wondering why i can't access it via the ip from before..

    @mohitsharma44 does this really work like that, the switch demands it?
    Because it's a known fact that network-manager does this randomization defaultwise.
  • 1
    @daintycode totally my fault. I had read up on Mac randomization quite sometime ago and for some reason I thought that the switch can demand for random Mac address (as a security feature) but indeed that's not the case.
    You are right, network managers control if they want to perform Mac randomization or not.
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