Re: NetworkManager reset MAC address

[Ma Begaj <derliebegott gmail com>]

2010/9/2 Ma Begaj <derliebegott gmail com>:
> 2010/9/1 Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>:
>> On Tuesday 31 of August 2010 12:26:05 mmsim6 gmail com wrote:
>>> I wrote a udev rule to change the MAC address of my wireless card and
>>> it worked correctly until I upgraded to
>>> NetworkManager-0.8.1-4.git20100817.fc13.x86_64
>>> today. Now I find the MAC is reset back to the original address by
>>> NetworkManager.
>>> How to stop this new feature?
>>
>> The new NetworkManager has implemented MAC spoofing feature just for this
>> purpose.
>> In connection editor,  on 'Wireless' tab there is a new edit box 'Cloned MAC
>> address'. If you put your desired MAC here, it will be set on an interface
>> when the connection is activated. And you don't need to change your MAC in
>> udev or any other way.
>> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447827
>
>
> these changes are not in 0.8.1 but only in the repository?
>
> I saw that commits are from June and 0.8.1 is from July.
>

It would be nice to have "Random MAC" option ion the GUI.

I am doing it manually at the moment with mac-changer but a checkbox
in Wireless/Wired options would be great.