The current versions of the nl80211 device drivers enable MAC
randomization by default, so that, when wpa_supplicant creates the
"P2P-Device" virtual interface, a randomized MAC address is used and
this breaks the persistent P2P Group reuse when the "P2P-Device" virtual
interface is recreated. A persistent P2P-GO group works correctly while
wpa_supplicant is running. After restarting wpa_supplicant, it creates a
new "P2P-device type" interface with a different (randomized) MAC
address and the saved persistent group in the peer device becomes no
more usable for reconnection: only a new persistent group can be
established (through new authorization process), usable until
wpa_supplicant is subsequently restarted.
The expected behaviour is that a reconnection to the previously saved
group is possible also after restarting wpa_supplicant.
After experimenting a modification in wpa_supplicant so that it forces a
fixed MAC address during the "P2P-Device" virtual interface creation, I
performed some tests using an Android device as P2P Client and a Linux
server running the modified wpa_supplicant: in such case the issue is
overcome.
Can someone confirm that a change has to be done in wpa_supplicant in
order to support such feature?
Thanks
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