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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by ams6110 on Sunday June 08, 2014 @07:08PM (#7866264)
My experience is I get home, open my laptop, and it seems to by default assume it has the same IP as last time it was on my home network. Meanwhile my kid's 2DS game is using that IP, and I have a few minutes of chaos. I just assign fixed IPs to all the regularly connected devices and I don't encounter that.
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Re:iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi ... by rsynnott on Sunday June 08, 2014 @10:35PM (#7866750)
Are you sure this isn't a router problem? A number of routers have an issue where they occasionally drop their table of DHCP allocations and just start again; this mostly only manifests when a new device connects.
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