Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6155 18 Feb 2026, 19:51

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 3:28.280 Passed
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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
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40.311
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.647
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
When I disable MAC spoofing in Tails Greeter 8.048
And I log in to a new session 11.564
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.236
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.074
And the 1st network device has its real MAC address configured 0.089
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.342
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.059
And the 2nd network device has its real MAC address configured 0.077
And some network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
1:5.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.280
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
When I log in to a new session 13.553
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 43.037
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.071
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
When I hotplug a network device and wait for it to be initialized 1.392
Then 2 network interfaces are enabled 0.048
And the 2nd network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
21.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.429
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns false 0.073
When I log in to a new session 12.351
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.006
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
21.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.203
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.076
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.162
When I log in to a new session 11.939
Then no network interfaces are enabled 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
And I see the "Wired Network Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
22.350
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 7.150
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.023
And macchanger will fail by not spoofing and always returns true 0.137
And no network interface modules can be unloaded 0.150
When I log in to a new session 12.641
Then 1 network interface is enabled 0.065
But the MAC spoofing panic mode disabled networking 0.389
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.007
And I see the "All Networking Disabled" notification after at most 60 seconds 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
37.052
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I capture all network traffic 0.001
When I start the computer 0.783
Then the computer boots Tails 35.886
And no network interfaces are enabled 0.322
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048