Re: How to activate MAC address randomization?

[poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com>]

On 13.05.2016 17:37, Chris Laprise wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 06:16 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 16:09 -0400, Chris Laprise wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just installed NetworkManager 1.2 in fedora 23 in the hopes that I
> > > can
> > > get mac randomization working. Only problem is there's no sign of a
> > > setting for this in nmcli or the applet. I found a reference to a
> > > setting on the NetworkManager.conf manpage which states:
> > >
> > >          wifi.mac-address-randomization
> > >              If left unspecified, MAC address randomization is
> > > disabled.
> > wpa_supplicant only gained the necessary functionality that
> > NetworkManager looks for back in late October 2015.  It was committed
> > after wpa_supplicant 2.5 but it appears there hasn't been a release
> > since then.  But once that happens, or if you build supplicant version
> > from git, NM will begin to use that capability if you've enable it in
> > the NM configuration.
> >
> > http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=e50c50d5a090a6a52af6d92ee3a3c9cc37743747
> >
> > Dan
>
> So there is no current release of wpa_supplicant that supports the 
> randomization feature?
>
> According to Lubomir Rintel and Michael Biebl the feature was released 
> in 2.4.....
>
> https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/2016/01/18/networkmanger-and-tracking-protection-in-wi-fi-networks/
>
> Chris


- Add support for using random local MAC address
  https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf?id=c267753

-is- part of >= wpa_supplicant 2.4
  https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf?id=918803

- hostapd/wpa_supplicant 2.4
  https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tag/?h=hostap_2_4
- Change version information for the 2.4 release
  https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=918803

but Williams speaks of the necessary elements to do so in the context,

"D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. ..."

- dbus: Expose interface globals via D-Bus properties
  https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=e50c50d