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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

If you're using Linux on the SoC, one way to force a constant MAC address is to edit /etc/network/interfaces to include something like: 

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    hwaddress ether 00:11:22:33:44:55