XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Brian Gregory wrote:   
      
   > My Android mobile phone now defaults to some kind of MAC randomization.   
   > It's damn annoying.   
   > If I forget of disable it none of the public Wi-Fi access points I use   
   > will let me use them without re-registering every time.   
   > I don't fully understand what it's doing though, because my own home   
   > Wi-Fi manages to give it the same IP address every time.   
      
   The phone should remember per-SSID which random MAC it previously used   
   (or whether it used its hardware MAC) are you telling it to forget the   
   SSIDs after you use them ... some earlier firmware *did* use random   
   every time and they stopped for the reason you describe.   
      
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