Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:07:40 +0100 From: diffusae <punasipuli@t-online.de> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change MAC address on RPI-B? Message-ID: <177ae37f-db52-c7ee-77fa-d9bc7d61b4ee@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <002801d24755$f9017420$eb045c60$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> References: <001701d245ce$e64e33f0$b2ea9bd0$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> <454137dc-30f7-cd33-6c75-0cc3045090dd@t-online.de> <002801d24755$f9017420$eb045c60$@Kitz@xs4all.nl>
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Hi John, On 25.11.2016 20:56, John W. Kitz wrote: > So when doing so the locally administered MAC address is passed on from > uEnv.txt to the O/S during boot and is then used to override the globally I didn't think, that it will be passed from the U-Boot Enviroment settings. You can set the MAC address, but the FreeBSD kernel shows always the unique MAC address. > unique MAC address or does the O/S check both the information found in its > configuration files and what is configured in uEnv.txt before configuring > and activating the network interface(s)? Which configuration files do you mean? AFAIK there is only the FDT blob. I guess it ignores the setting in uEnv.txt. > Makes me wonder which of the two (i.e. locally administered through uEnv.txt > or locally administered through the O/S) takes precedence. Only the unique MAC address and the locally administered MAC address, will take affect. > In addition this might affect configuration decisions when one would want to > configure a device for net booting (at least when browsing through what can > be configured by means of uEnv.txt I believe that was one of the options I > saw) through uEnv.txt? Personally, I like u-boot. It has various options, runs on a lot of devices and it's also nice to handle. Best regards,
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