Monday, May 29, 2017

[fedora-arm] Re: RPi3 MAC address

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 16:58 +0200, Alessio Ciregia wrote:
>> I'm using Fedora 26 on a Raspberry Pi 3.
>> Is it normal that at each reboot (or shutdown and poweron), the MAC
>> address of the Ethernet card is each time a different one?
>
> No. Should be derived from the serial number.
>
> There used to be a uboot bug though where this didn't work correctly,
> in that case the kernel generates a random mac for the device.
>
> uboot v2017.05 should work correctly.

There was a issue in the kernel that was fixed in
10b6c0c2e2bb8cd1be682f8d36ef597e3419cb88

We pulled this is some time ago as well.
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