On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:44 AM Bob Marcan <bob.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? >
Hi Bob, Thank you for your post, but this is an opinion and adds nothing to the technical discussion underway. Let's discuss the patches please. Thanks, - Steve
