Hi Daniel, > When using OpenWrt, we are dealing with this differently: > The random address generated by Linux is made persistent on first boot > for both ethernet devices: > > https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/mediatek/base-files/etc/uci-defaults/99_fwenv-store-ethaddr.sh;h=e9cb4f921d9aedd82550d0cc8935687135ec83a3;hb=HEAD > > And eventhough U-Boot at this point knows nothing about there being more > than one Ethernet MAC it still sets the address stored in eth1addr for > the Ethernet MAC pointed to by the 'ethernet1' alias. > > However, to let U-Boot do that for you, we would need to change the > Ethernet driver in U-Boot to expose all MACs rather than just one of > them.
That is an interesting workaround, I will try it out. In the meantime I managed to configure systemd-networkd to assign a permanent MAC address. It is unfortunate that these boards don't come with preallocated MAC addresses which would remove the need for random ones. Thanks, Leith Bade
