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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

MAC Address changes on reboot

I've noticed that each time I reboot or power cycle the SoC, it appears to have a different MAC address. I thought that the MAC address should be fixed for a device and was not reprogrammable. On fur...
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12 years ago

Look at the kernel log.

The kernel is probably assigning a random value because the hardware isn't supplying one.

The MAC address has to come from an EEPROM somewhere.