'NSA addition to ifconfig'

Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by brynet on Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:52AM (#11792080)

That is just some diff someone sent to a mailing list, one real nifty feature of OpenBSD's ifconfig(8) is 'lladdr random', which will randomly assign a new MAC address to an interface.

Apparently well received by developers in airport lounges.

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by brynet on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:14PM (#11792159)

BTW -- it's also really easy to configure wireless on OpenBSD compared to other systems:

    # ifconfig iwm0 scan

...

    # ifconfig iwm0 nwid "AP" [wpakey pass] [nwkey pass] up
    # dhclient iwm0

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/ifconfig.8#IEEE_...

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man5/hostname.if.5

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by zxcvcxz on Saturday May 28, 2016 @01:19PM (#11792417)

That's if wireless works at all.

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by egwynn on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:02PM (#11792118)

According to the diff (and its accompanying message) this is what it supplements. It allows one to specify “nsa” instead of “random”, and it’ll fill in the first three bytes (with 00:20:91) for you.

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by jschwartzi on Saturday May 28, 2016 @01:38PM (#11792489)

That's the NSA's OUID, so anyone who looks your mac address up will think it originated with them.

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by Hello71 on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:31PM (#11792239)

somewhat difficult to find, but:

    echo "mac_addr=1" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

documented at https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplican... line 405.

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Re:'NSA addition to ifconfig' by atmosx on Saturday May 28, 2016 @01:11PM (#11792385)

Hm, here:

    $ sudo ifconfig en0 ether `openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`

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