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yaghmaie.p

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Registered: 2014-01-26

Posts: 14

Mac spoofing by macchanger and systemd unit cause startup delay

Hello everyone,

I followed this guide to make a systemd unit for automatic mac spoofing on startup. I have 2 interfaces (wlo1 and enp0s25) on these devices:

lspci
24:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 3e)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)

And networkmanager 1.8.0-1.
On system startup I get

a start job is running for macspoof(wlo1, enp0s25)

for unlimited amount of time waiting... but after pushing some esc and del keys, it resumes loading other services and system starts up with MACs successfully spoofed. Any ideas why it stucks on loading macspoof unit??

Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,723

Re: Mac spoofing by macchanger and systemd unit cause startup delay

If you are using NetworkManager, why are you not doing https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MA … orkManager ?

I'd assume that both of them might conflict in some way.

Last edited by V1del (2017-05-28 18:28:10)

yaghmaie.p

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Registered: 2014-01-26

Posts: 14

Re: Mac spoofing by macchanger and systemd unit cause startup delay

If you are using NetworkManager, why are you not doing https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MA … orkManager ?

I'd assume that both of them might conflict in some way.

Sometimes I stop NetworkManager and take control manually. And I prefer using -e (Don't change the vendor bytes) on macchanger, than using a fully random MAC.

myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 297

Re: Mac spoofing by macchanger and systemd unit cause startup delay

I'm having the same problem.
I use Connman (not Networkmanager), and have been successfully using  the systemd  unit described in the Wiki for some time.
All was well until a recent update, since when I am experiencing an extremely long delay at start up (>3 minutes), with a similar message to that reported in the original post.
Eventually, the system starts correctly.
Any ideas on why this is suddenly happening would be welcome.