Automatic change of MAC address every zypper dup?

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Tumbleweed on a notebook, up-to-date.

I’m using a donation edition of FreeFileSync to keep some data trees in sync with a server. It suddenly complained I had installed it on 10 different computers. Turns out, software looks for the MAC address and it changes quite often after zypper dup.
See here: Donation Edition stops working!!! - FreeFileSync Forum

I can understand that the guy who maintains the software doesn’t like the thought that a $20 edition of his programm is distributed. On the other hand it is obviously a bad idea to glue the license to the mac address. I don’t like the thought of being tracked by the MAC address.

Any ideas? – Thank you!

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You could start with telling us what network hardware and network management application you are using.

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Hardware are the wifi and the ethernet parts in my notebook (Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen9). Network is managed by network manager under KDE.

Sorry for long delayed answer. I run out of beer and went for weekend shopping.

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So record output of

ip link

before zypper dup and after and post here.

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I’ll collect output of ip link in different situations (Ethernet / Wifi, Office / Home) and report the outcome.

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Disable MAC randomization and go on:

https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/net-manual.html.en

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