[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#807429: Don't reset MAC on connection initialization

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: tag -1 + patch

Hello NM maintainers,

I was affected by this problem recently (trying to change my MAC in
an airport with macchanger) and many Kali users are also complaining
of this behaviour.

Upstream largely improved this behaviour in NM 1.3.x by making it
configurable, see:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=8eed67122c58540360b617eb42d5df8328e21b5d

For 1.3.x, we should definitely provide by default configuration file that
changes {wifi,ethernet}.cloned-mac-address to "preserve". I'm just not
sure how this should look like in the configuration file...

For 1.2.x, I would like us to revert the upstream patch that broke
this. The justification for the change was not a very good one (recovering
from a crashed NM with bonded network interfaces) and breaks more use
cases than it solves... please find the patch attached.

I would like to see this patch applied in Debian as I applied it in Kali.
Let me know if you want me to make a non-maintainer upload with that
patch.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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