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khaalid

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Registered: 2024-08-30

Posts: 7

NetworkManager mac randomization

Hello everyone. I am trying to disable NetworkManager mac randomization which makes me difficult to connect to the AP currently here how the network profile look like:

connection.type:                        802-11-wireless
802-11-wireless.ssid:                   Khalid Network
802-11-wireless.mode:                   infrastructure
802-11-wireless.band:                   --
802-11-wireless.channel:                0
802-11-wireless.bssid:                  --
802-11-wireless.mac-address:            5C:80:B6:63:55:1A
802-11-wireless.cloned-mac-address:     permanent
802-11-wireless.generate-mac-address-mask:--
802-11-wireless.mac-address-denylist:   --
802-11-wireless.mac-address-randomization:never
802-11-wireless.mtu:                    auto
802-11-wireless.seen-bssids:            14:EB:B6:AB:96:6E
802-11-wireless.hidden:                 no
802-11-wireless.powersave:              0 (default)
802-11-wireless.wake-on-wlan:           0x1 (default)
802-11-wireless.ap-isolation:           -1 (default)
802-11-wireless.channel-width:          0 (auto)

Address:

5C:80:B6:63:55:1A

is the actual physical address of my interface which i whitelisted it it was supposed to authenticate with. But sometimes it randomizes the interface or randomizes during scanning like it ignores my configuration completely. Also this flag seems missing

wifi.scan-rand-mac-address

. Thanks everyone

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 62,858

Re: NetworkManager mac randomization

Did you already rtfw?

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-thc

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 852

Re: NetworkManager mac randomization

Also this flag seems missing

wifi.scan-rand-mac-address

This is a general device setting that will not be present at the connection level. If unset on the general level it will not be shown either:

nmcli device show wlp3s0

What do your configuration files

/etc/NetworkManager/NetwokManager.conf
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/*.conf
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto SSID.nmconnection

contain?