On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:40:49 -0500 Denis Kenzior <denk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kalle, > > > For user experience scanning and DHCP are also important, what kind of > > > numbers you get when those are included? No need to have anything> precise, > > I would like just to get an understanding where we are> nowadays. > > Scanning heavily depends on the RF environment and the hardware. In our > testing ath9k takes stupid long to scan for example. > > But in a sort of best case scenario, using limited scan and no mac change, > iwd connects in ~300ms. People have reported that they have not finished > opening their laptop screen and they're connected, so at that level of > latency, every millisecond is important and totally worth fighting for. > Randomizing the MAC would penalize our connection times by 2X (300 ms at > least). And Android folks have reported the penalty to be as high as 3 > seconds. So this needs to be fixed. And do note that this is a feature > every modern OS implements by default. Randomizing the MAC is a stupid decision. Do you realy expect that this will add something to the security? B. Marčan
