Mac Filter Not Allowing Devices to Connect

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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Hello,

Wifi with the Mac-filter set to allow-list and the ESSID set to hidden doesn't allow devices to connect. I've tried with a Mac and iPad.

Many different tested configs didn't work with the above being true.

Here are three older, similar issues: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/6858 https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload-ath79/issues/134 MAC-Filter Issue

Please let me know if you need me to test something, thanks.

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Get over it, modern operating systems do wifi scans using random MAC

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This is true, though devices can be set to use a stable MAC, and since I control the network this can be used.

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Use serious authentication to protect the network, like EAP, 1st connection exposes hidden network name and allowed MAC to a passive observer.

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Thanks for this recommendation.

Could you help as to why I'm seeing this behaviour with the wireless?

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Because time passed and all clients scan wifi using random mac.

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That shouldn't affect anything.