add paragraph about broken router DHCP tables

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Daniel Micay 2023-02-10 05:03:38 -05:00
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connecting to a network. It has 3 options available: "Use per-connection randomized MAC
(default)", "Use per-network randomized MAC" and "Use device MAC".</p>
<p>In rare cases, broken routers are unable to accept new clients once their
DHCP table is full instead of clearing the last recently used entry. You can
work around this by manually clearing the DHCP table via the router
administration page and can switch to the per-network randomized MAC mode to
avoid triggering the issue again. This would prevent a router being used in
any situation where many clients naturally come and go even without
per-connection MAC randomization and is not generally an issue for any modern
routers. Per-connection MAC randomization only makes it more likely to find a
one of the rare routers with this issue.</p>
<p>The DHCP client uses the anonymity profile rather than sending a hostname
so it doesn't compromise the privacy offered by MAC randomization. When the
per-connection MAC randomization added by GrapheneOS is being used, DHCP