Intel IWD 1.6 Wireless Daemon Released With MAC Randomization, Per-Network MAC Addresses

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel IWD 1.6 Wireless Daemon Released With MAC Randomization, Per-Network MAC Addresses

Intel open-source developers have released IWD v1.6 as their open-source, embedded-friendly wireless daemon for Linux systems as an alternative to WPA_Supplicant...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-IWD-1.6-Released

[Danny3]

That's very good, but I'm wondering if the developers thought of some kind of protection when using IPv6 ?
I would like to see some kind of option to complete disable making and IPV6 address from the MAC address.
And if I enable this feature then the IPv6 address should be made from the randomized MAC address.

[pkunk]

That's very good, but I'm wondering if the developers thought of some kind of protection when using IPv6 ?
I would like to see some kind of option to complete disable making and IPV6 address from the MAC address.
And if I enable this feature then the IPv6 address should be made from the randomized MAC address.

By default IWD doesn't handle ip addresses, it is usually done by NetworkManager/connman/networkd/dhcpcd.