Multiple MAC in Pending mac list
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Hi all !
I use fog 1.5.3 / Ubuntu
I’m currently deploying the FOG client in all my computers.
I have looked several times at the “Pending mac list”, without really paying attention, and i have approve the entire list various times.
A few second later a have the same mac who come back so… i look and i have client who have more than 70 macs !!!
2,3,… 5 why not but then it starts to do a lot…
This problem exists on some clients and if i look on one of then, obviously, i don’t have so much macs… !
Do you have an idea of what’s going on ?
Thanks.
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@laurentb Yes this can be turned off. You need to do this on each machine (if it currently is enabled)
Settings->Network & Internet->Wifi->Random hardware addresses->Use random hardware address = off
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Are these windows 10 clients? If so Win 10 has a “feature” to enable dynamic mac addresses. This is done for security ( ?? ) reasons. The pending macs view are for fog client detected mac address. Where the fog client reports in to the fog server the mac addresses it detects on its network interfaces. I use a Linux Mint computer at the moment so I can’t direct you to the exact location of this switch in the Win10 gui, but it should be around the network settings.
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To elaborate on what George said:
This functionality exists in Windows 10 for WiFi connections (Settings -> Network -> WiFi -> Advanced) for vaguely stated security reasons. It’s enabled by default on public connections I think. (Windows 10 by default assumes connections to be public for unknown reasons)
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Yes , all in windows 10…
Did you know if i coud disable this funcion ???
4 or 5 mac all the 10s… in one month my database will explose !
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@laurentb Yes this can be turned off. You need to do this on each machine (if it currently is enabled)
Settings->Network & Internet->Wifi->Random hardware addresses->Use random hardware address = off
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Ok perfect !
I found the option in some computers but some other i don’t… i will look for why, certainly a windows update version problem…
Thanks for your help !
Now i must clean the database !