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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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9 years ago

This topic is a little bit old, but it is difficult to find answer to this question. Changing /etc/network/interfaces don't work on Angstrom Linux (provided by Terasic).

To permanently set MAC address, you need to abort booting procedure by pressing any key (which will give you access to U-Boot) and then type: 

setenv ethaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
saveenv

I hope this will help people looking for answer.

Best regards,

Kamil Panek