My MAC address won't change back.

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My MAC address won't change back.

Postby Wesman26 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:30 pm

Hello all,
I tried putting alarm on my go flex net like 6 months ago and due to problems I couldn't understand, I gave up. Fortunately I figured those problems out last week and re-installed alarm on my drive that was at the time being used. Since it wasn't a fresh install I just wiped the drive and unpacked the most recent tarball into it. I got everything working, but I don't think I still have the rescue system as described here. Everything is working, but I know my MAC address is not the same as it was.

TL;DR
Is it a problem that my MAC address is different? And if so how can I change it back? I know I can spoof it from boot to boot with:$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ip link set dev eth0 address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX')
Except with my appropriate MAC address. I also know the more permanent solution of spoofing it at boot with /etc/rc.d/functions.d/macspoof, but both of these options seem somewhat less permanent than I would like. Is there a way for me to change my MAC address back to what it ought to be without spoofing that I just don't know of? Is it really worth worrying over this much?

Thanks in advance,
Wes
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Re: My MAC address won't change back.

Postby WarheadsSE » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:56 pm

Since we are moving to systemd, thats going to change as well. I believe there is a "proper" way to set it in uboot.
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Re: My MAC address won't change back.

Postby Wesman26 » Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:12 pm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'S')ince we are moving to systemd...


Haha, I was going to open another thread after this one asking if archlinux ARM was doing that soon. Splendid.
Thanks for the advice, I'll look into using uboot and post results back here.
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