Subj : Re: How do I get my Pi4 (Fedora) to use a real and stable MAC address?
To   : Lars Poulsen
From : Chris Townley
Date : Sun Sep 15 2024 23:06:09

On 15/09/2024 21:58, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> On 9/14/2024 3:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:37:58 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/13/2024 6:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:49:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh. its network manager that does it
>>>>
>>>> I disable NetworkManager on machines I consider “servers” or
>>>> “infrastructure”. Then I manually configure the network interfaces.
>>>
>>> So how do I manually configure the ethernet port to use the hardware MAC
>>> address?
>>
>> Every NIC has a built-in address, which it should default to.
>>
>> Or, a quick look at the docs
>> <https://manpages.debian.org/8/ip-link.8.en.html> gives
>>
>>      ip link set «device» address «addr»
>
> Not quite responsive:
> 1) I do not want to invent a MAC address, I want to tell it to use the
> manufacturer's supposedly unique default address AFTER the
> OS/driver/network-manager/whatever has already wiped it out during the
> boot process. Your command example assumes that I know what it is.
> 2)As you can see in the subject line, I am running Fedora, not
> rasp(b)ian. Even if Fedora's GUI does not work on the RP4, I would
> rather run headless than have to learn Debian system management after a
> decade of living in RedHat world.
>

Don't feed the troll!

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Chris

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