Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4229 12 Feb 2026, 11:56

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Spoofing MAC addresses 55 0 0 0 0 55 6 0 6 3:7.185 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Spoofing MAC addresses
In order to not reveal information about the physical location As a Tails user I want to be able to control whether my network devices MAC addresses should be spoofed And I want this feature to fail safe and notify me in case of errors
Tags: @product
1:6.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.272
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 7.935
And I log in to a new session 9.249
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 40.757
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.051
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.057
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.327
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.055
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.056
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
30.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.180
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
When I log in to a new session 8.553
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 13.233
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.056
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.231
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.065
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.045
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
18.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.982
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.018
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.107
When I log in to a new session 9.011
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
17.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.069
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.015
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.085
When I log in to a new session 8.866
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.004
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
19.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.939
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.102
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.126
When I log in to a new session 10.564
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.068
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.266
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.007
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
34.087
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I capture all network traffic 0.001
When I start the computer 0.670
Then the computer boots Tails 33.304
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080