5 Mar
2017
5 Mar
'17
12:48
Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
I cannot understand the need for the system to creat a MAC address when every device is asigned an address by the manufacturer.
This is a privacy feature. And yes, you want that when traveling with your laptop in certain countries. Note that recent Android versions and IIRC Windows 10 also do that. You can observe that when looking at leases in your DHCP server log. Ciao, Michael.