On 06.07.2016 17:41, Thomas Haller wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 16:45 +0200, poma wrote: >> On 18.06.2016 14:36, Chris Laprise wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Is there more of a consensus now on this issue? >>> >>> My last attempt at using NM 1.2 with wpas 2.4 and iwlwifi driver >>> (which >>> supposedly uses nl80211) resulted in NM saying it couldn't turn >>> randomization on. >>> >>> If I compile the latest NM 1.2 and wpas 2.5 master branches, should >>> it >>> work? My objective is to document the conditions and steps needed >>> to get >>> wifi randomization operational on Qubes OS, which is based on >>> fedora. >>> >>> Chris >>> >> >> >> Have you tested recent Haller's commits? >> "wifi: implement MAC address randomization in NetworkManager instead >> of supplicant" >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/log/?qt=gr >> ep&q=randomization > > Hi poma, > > > I wanted to reply to this thread, explaining what I changed there... I > forgot, ... > > > on master (upcoming 1.4.0) wpa-supplicant is no longer used to > randomize MAC addresses. Instead it's done by NetworkManager. > Also, this also works now with ethernet, not only Wi-Fi. > > > > Again, randomization during Wi-Fi scanning is enabled by default. It > can be disabled per-device via NetworkManager.conf: > [device] > wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no > See `man NetworkManager.conf`. > > > For randomzation during connection, the wifi.mac-address-randomization > setting is deprecated (but still used in case you have old connections > on disc). > Now, you configure instead wifi.cloned-mac-address (or ethernet.cloned- > mac-address). See `man nm-settings`. > > nmcli connection modify $MY_WIFI wifi.cloned-mac-address stable > >
Vorsprung durch Technik Tested, and basic, Pre-association / Scanning -and- Association / Connection - random MAC address works /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf ... [connection] # deprecated - see 'man 5 NetworkManager.conf / nm-settings': # wifi.mac-address-randomization=2 # # replacement: wifi.cloned-mac-address=random [device] # default: # wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes Test builds - Fedora: http://goo.gl/Gm4ffO net/ Repairs double "random" ethernet / wifi assigned-mac-address value description for NM-SETTINGS(5) --- libnm-core/nm-setting-wired.c | 2 +- libnm-core/nm-setting-wireless.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-setting-wired.c b/libnm-core/nm-setting-wired.c index 66ed9c4..fc5ab3e 100644 --- a/libnm-core/nm-setting-wired.c +++ b/libnm-core/nm-setting-wired.c @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ nm_setting_wired_class_init (NMSettingWiredClass *setting_wired_class) * format: string * description: The new field for the cloned MAC address. It can be either * a hardware address in ASCII representation, or one of the special values - * "preserve", "permanent", "random", "random" or "stable". + * "preserve", "permanent", "random" or "stable". * This field replaces the deprecated "cloned-mac-address" on D-Bus, which * can only contain explict hardware addresses. * ---end--- diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-setting-wireless.c b/libnm-core/nm-setting-wireless.c index 2aa29c9..a7f58fe 100644 --- a/libnm-core/nm-setting-wireless.c +++ b/libnm-core/nm-setting-wireless.c @@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ nm_setting_wireless_class_init (NMSettingWirelessClass *setting_wireless_class) * format: string * description: The new field for the cloned MAC address. It can be either * a hardware address in ASCII representation, or one of the special values - * "preserve", "permanent", "random", "random" or "stable". + * "preserve", "permanent", "random" or "stable". * This field replaces the deprecated "cloned-mac-address" on D-Bus, which * can only contain explict hardware addresses. * ---end--- -- > > > > Related expert options are: > > * per-connection (man nm-settings): > > - "connection.stable-id", which affects the generated ID for > with "cloned-mac-address=stable". If you have multiple > connections that should generate the same MAC address. > > - "wifi.generate-mac-address-mask", > "ethernet.generate-mac-address-mask" > > * per-device (man NetworkManager.conf): > > - "wifi.scan-generate-mac-address-mask" > > > > Thomas > Chris, tested expert options? _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
