On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:48:44 +0100 Łukasz Moskała <l...@lukaszmoskala.pl> wrote:
> > > Dnia 17 listopada 2021 16:39:07 CET, Radek <r...@int.pl> napisał/a: > >On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:22:42 +0100 > >Denis Fondras <open...@ledeuns.net> wrote: > > > >> Le Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:03:42AM +0100, Radek a écrit : > >> > > >> > How can I restore the vendor's MAC address? > >> > It is 6.8/amd64. > >> > > >> > >> Check dmesg, it will give you the original MAC address, then ifconfig > >> lladdr... > >> > > > >Hello Denis, > >dmesg shows my new_MAC. > >I know the value of my original MAC address but I used to think that > >removing lladdr value from /etc/hostname.if and then reboot restores the > >original MAC. I doesn't. > >Is there any way to "force" OS to restore original MAC address by reading it > >from hardware/NIC instead of ifconfig lladdr ...? > > > > I have no idea how the lladdr option is handled by driver, but it looks like > your network card decided to write new_MAC to it's EEPROM chip (where it's > usually stored). I thought the same thing. > > Out of curiosity, does linux or any other OS show new_MAC or vendor's MAC? It's a production router. I'm planning to replace that box with another one in a few weeks, then I'll do some tests. bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 3.0 @ 0x7ee42040 (9 entries) bios0: vendor coreboot version "v4.13.0.1" date 11/25/2020 bios0: PC Engines apu1 > -- > Łukasz Moskała > -- Radek
