I have noticed that both of my PocketBeagles have unique MACs that do not move with the SD card when connecting via USB. (I tried switching the cards between PBs and the MACs stay with the boards. Could it be something in the onboard flash?
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 5:23:54 PM UTC-4, Steven Keller wrote: > > It appears that the ENC28 MAC address is random as well. It doesn't show > up with any vendor when doing an online MAC lookup. I wonder if it is > possible to populate it with the same one that the USB Ethernet interface > uses when attaching to a PC. I haven't looked but my guess is there is a > MAC address burned into the processor. > > --steve > > On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 8:36:58 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote: >> >> I have gotten an additional two MAC addresses (total five, now) presented >> by the ETH-WIZ. >> (So, it has appeared on five different IP addresses in my network, and I >> can't give it a static address, since that is paired with the MAC address.) >> It never changes while running, and usually not when rebooting, but will >> almost always change the MAC address after loading a new image on the PB. >> And none of them are 'legal'. (That is, no recognizable OUI identifying >> the manufacturer.) >> >> There must not be a memory for the MAC address in the ETH-WIZ, and the >> driver makes one up using a random number generator, upon booting on a new >> image for the first time. >> >> I am tired of chasing this Ethernet interface all over my network address >> space. >> . >> --- Graham >> >> == >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/337578c2-5d2e-459d-b513-ec449fd3cd30%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
