Bug 781295 - network: Allow configuring random MAC addresses
network: Allow configuring random MAC addresses
Status: NEW
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Network
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
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Depends on: 790961
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Reported: 2017-04-13 22:57 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2017-12-14 19:43 UTC (History)
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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/
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