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* Wireguard-go on Android 11+
@ 2023-04-12 12:39 Anton
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From: Anton @ 2023-04-12 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all,

I'm porting a Golang-based program [1] to Android11+ (API level 30)
and I've faced a problem,as the getifaddrs function is not available
for apps and other restrictions.

From Android developer documentation [2]:
>
> In addition, non-privileged apps can't access the device's MAC address; only network interfaces with an IP address are visible. This impacts the getifaddrs() and   NetworkInterface.getHardwareAddress() methods, as well as sending RTM_GETLINK Netlink messages.
>   The following is a list of the ways that apps are affected by this change:
>   NetworkInterface.getHardwareAddress() returns null for every interface.
>   Apps cannot use the bind() function on NETLINK_ROUTE sockets.
>   The ip command does not return information about interfaces.
>   Apps cannot send RTM_GETLINK messages.
>

I came up with a workaround [3], and now my app works OK.

External references:
https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/node
https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-ids#mac-11-plus
https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/wireguard-go/pull/5/files

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best regards,
  Anton

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