Public bug reported:
I'm not exactly sure if this is a network-manager bug, but if not perhaps you
could point me in the right direction (or tell me how to find out what the
right direction is)..
A friend running 12.10 and myself running 12.04.1 both experienced the same
problem.
Using the following series of commands to change the ethernet MAC address works
fine under some specific circumstances:
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifconfig eth0 up
If there is a wired connection defined in the network-manager gui (click
the wireless signal-> Edit Connections...) and there is a Cloned Mac
Address defined in there, the MAC address of eth0 WILL REVERT to it's
original (hardware) MAC address upon connection of an ethernet cable.
This is very strange and frustrating. In order for the above MAC address
changes to take effect, there needs to be nothing filled in with the
GUI.
Second issue (I guess it is related) is that if everything is working
correctly, the MAC address WILL REVERT to it's original (hardware) MAC
address upon DISconncetion of the ethernet cable.
Perhaps I am doing something horribly, horribly wrong here, but it's
frustrating and hours of searching the forums have not given me any
indication of the correct place/time to change MAC address. If network-
manager does not want to respect the changes I have requested, then it
should at least provide a functioning, documented alternative method in
order to make the same change.
What I would expect:
Changing the MAC address of eth0 using the network-manager gui will actually
change the MAC address everytime the interface is brought up.
Current workaround:
In /etc/rc.local, run the above commands for changing hardware address
In /etc/network/if-post-down.d/ create a script that will sleep for 5 seconds
and then run the above commands.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 5 08:15:48 2013
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120823.1)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.254 dev wlan0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.65 metric 2
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf:
2013-02-03T13:48:28.620664
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE
TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY
DBUS-PATH
BattlecruiserOperational 61ddc2db-76fa-4c7e-9b11-fc68440e8a47
802-11-wireless 1360080712 Tue 05 Feb 2013 08:11:52 AM PST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1
magiclab f1b348f9-ff96-4729-b690-dcdb69c729e5
802-11-wireless 1360014380 Mon 04 Feb 2013 01:46:20 PM PST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/7
ubcsecure a141ff8b-b47f-47a4-81be-c01335b9aa0a
802-11-wireless 1360034251 Mon 04 Feb 2013 07:17:31 PM PST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/6
Wired connection 1 e54ce990-cd66-461c-8343-60f4f099b7ec
802-3-ethernet 1360034239 Mon 04 Feb 2013 07:17:19 PM PST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/5
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless connected
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI
WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled
enabled enabled enabled
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity third-party-packages
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Ethernet mac address resets when cable unplugged
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