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Bug 781295 - network: Allow configuring random MAC addresses
network: Allow configuring random MAC addresses
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Network
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on: 790961
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-04-13 22:57 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:01 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2017-04-13 22:57:59 UTC
Recent versions of NetworkManager introduced support for MAC address spoofing.

I think it is quite likely that a user would want this set differently than the default provided by upstream or their distro. Maybe the user needs address randomization turned off to work with a particular network, or maybe the user wants to make sure that randomization is always on when scanning for Wi-Fi networks.

https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoofing-in-networkmanager-1-4-0/
Comment 1 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:01:03 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
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and create a new enhancement request ticket at
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.