Agree with Tim... Unless she's telling the phone to "forget" the network
each and every day...
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Tim DeNike via PacketFence-users <
packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> MAC randomization (At least the way Ive seen it work) only randomizes the
> MAC when the device is passively probing for networks. It uses the fixed
> MAC when it actually connects.
>
> OR.. It uses a random MAC for a specific SSID and doesn't change it while
> connected to that SSID.
>
> If its randomizing the MAC every single time, tell her tough beans, get a
> phone that works correctly. :D
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Torry, Andrew via PacketFence-users <
> packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> We have a new student who cannot seem to get onto our PF controlled wifi
>> since her mobile phone
>>
>> keeps randomising its MAC address. It appears this feature is hard coded
>> into the phones OS and
>>
>> cannot be disabled. The only way we can see to fix this is to register
>> every one of the 65535 MAC addresses
>>
>> the device could be using to the user’s ID but this sees dangerously
>> cludgy to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone else come up with a potential fix for this as it completely
>> breaks PF and other MAC based registration systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew Torry
>>
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