On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 17:38:23 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> one of my NICs remembers it's mac addresses between reboots... so i'm having
> to look up the old one in my routers' leases to put things right. it took
> hours to debug this because hacing multiple systems with the same MAC on the
> same network is *never* supposed to happen. wrecked my day. :-(
Same for me, both my NICs (have two onboard) now have the same address,
apparently burnt into them:
> $ sudo ethtool --show-permaddr eth0
> Permanent address: aa:00:04:00:0a:04
> $ sudo ethtool --show-permaddr eth1
> Permanent address: aa:00:04:00:0a:04
lspci's (short) output:
> Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
> controller (rev 03)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:22:36 +0200, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> The problem with the NIC not restoring original MAC address is strange.
> Without more information I would guess it's the card's firmware or
> driver's fault.
Any suggestions on restoring this manually? Because right now my
/etc/network/interfaces doesn't work anymore, so I have to manually
reconfigure my interfaces after every boot (ain't fun).
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Met vriendelijke groet,
With kind regards,
Giel van Schijndel
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