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13 years ago

Unique MAC address without using a flash memory and without prompting the user?

Dear Sirs, I am facing a little challenge with MAC addresses here. The default way of assigning a MAC address is by reading it from flash memory. Below is an example (from nios2eds/examples/s...
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13 years ago

Linux drivers tend to fall back on a random MAC address if they can't obtain the 'real' one, and then let ethtool be used to set it.

Using a property of the host's motherboard for a card's MAC address seems wrong to me, I'm not even sure that most x86 motherboards even has serial numbers - and trusting manufacturers to set them differently on every system is asking a lot.