Bug 629644
| Summary: | NetworkManager 0.8.1-4 always reset wireless MAC address despite user setting | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rajeesh <rajeeshknambiar> |
| Component: | NetworkManager | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 13 | CC: | dcbw, jklimes, maurizio.antillon |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2011-06-01 05:13:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Rajeesh
2010-09-02 15:02:20 UTC
NetworkManager supports MAC spoofing feature now. The 'Cloned MAC address' box is designed for that. Unfortunately, there is an issue in wpa_supplicant with *WPA* WiFi connections. A patch has been prepared for wpa_suplicant, but still not applied. See bug 447827 for more info. You could try a hack temporarily: http://markmail.org/message/5ary4cvzlirvro73 Hi Jirka, I've missed to mention that this happens on *WEP* network, not WPA. Restarting NM *after* 'ifconfig wlan0 hw ether' should make wpa_supplicant to take the new HW_ADDR, right? Well, you are lucky using WEP for MAC spoofing use case. MAC cloning feature in the NetworkManager works out-of-box for both WiFi WEP and wired connections without any need for messing with ifconfig or other commands. So, you should just fill your desired MAC to the 'Cloned MAC address' box in the 'Wireless' tab of your connection and that's it. Then when you activate the connection, the MAC will be set on the interface; on disconnecting the interface will be reset with the permanent MAC again. (The hack was just for WPA WiFi connections). Tested NetworkManager-0.8.1-4.git20100817 again for WEP network, and "Cloned MAC Address" works perfectly. It would be nice to have if NM respects "ifconfig wlan0 hw ether" also. Now NM reads MAC it sees on interfaces when it starts. Then when it disconnects it resets this MAC. Upstream fix is: 358261ccd9d1cf4b97969136d657e7c49be52bc3 (master) 33c09a99453528a8bf4d9c7aa0dcf2e8946de6ef (NM_0_8) Awesome. I'll build the RPMs and test it out - or is there a plan to update NM 0.8 in F13? This message is a reminder that Fedora 13 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 13. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '13'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 13's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 13 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Using NetworkManager 0.8.999-3.git20110526 on F15, this bug is fixed. Hence closing the bug (guess that is okay). |