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Barvinok
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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:12 pm Post subject: Forcing MAC on boot |
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Hi.
My laptop firmware has a bug -- default MAC of the NIC is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
| Quote: | Dolphin ~ # dmesg | grep -i eth
[ 1.595332] jme: JMicron JMC2XX ethernet driver version 1.0.8
[ 1.598134] netif_napi_add() called with weight 128 on device eth%d
[ 1.601635] jme 0000:03:00.5 eth0: JMC250 Gigabit Ethernet chiprev:23 pcirev:3 macaddr:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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Consequently, the interface is not getting up, not getting IP address assigned by the DHCP and so on.
A year ago, when net.lo and net.eth0 were still there and in effect, I solved this problem by adding mac_eth0="..correct mac here...", and everything worked well.
Then (a week ago) I had to replace hard drive on this laptop and reinstall Gentoo on it.
Before that I did the Gentoo install to two other laptops. Somehow they don't seem to have net.lo and all the stuff I got used to, they have empty /etc/conf.d/net but still their network interfaces were automagically up and running well.
But not this beast 
I wrote mac_eth0 entry to /etc/conf.d/net as before but it didn't work -- the interface got invalid mac on reboot. I noticed the interface got renamed to enp3s0f5 and wrote mac_enp3s0f5 to the /etc/conf.d/net but to no avail. I even tried net.ifaces=0 for kernel to avoid renaming, thinking udev may be intervening. But no. I feel like /etc/conf.d/net isn't respected anymore
here's what ifconfig -a says
| Quote: | enp3s0f5: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp2s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 48:5d:60:88:8b:ab txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 |
What is the proper MODERN way to force a MAC on a NIC ? By modern I mean having all that netifrc-whatever stuff taken into account.
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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To switch to the old naming convention do the following, it will probably make things easier to understand.
| Code: | | touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules |
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Barvinok
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| chiefbag wrote: | To switch to the old naming convention do the following, it will probably make things easier to understand.
| Code: | | touch /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules |
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I'm sorry, I don't see how this can change MAC address from incorrect to the correct one 
In general I don't care how my interfaces are named. I just need a working way to set a MAC.
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John R. Graham
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See the examples in "/usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2", specifically, "mac_eth0" and friends. These go in your /etc/conf.d/net file. 
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Barvinok
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| John R. Graham wrote: | | See the examples in "/usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2", specifically, "mac_eth0" and friends. These go in your /etc/conf.d/net file. |
As I said in my first post
| Barvinok wrote: | | I wrote mac_eth0 entry to /etc/conf.d/net as before but it didn't work -- the interface got invalid mac on reboot. I noticed the interface got renamed to enp3s0f5 and wrote mac_enp3s0f5 to the /etc/conf.d/net but to no avail. |
Besides, I don't have /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/ despite both openrc and baselayout installed.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net
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mac_enp3s0f5="00:1A:7F:B0:CD:34"
mac_eth0="00:1A:7F:B0:CD:34"
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What do I do now to make sure the /etc/conf.d/net settings are respected?
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John R. Graham
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Well, first of all, you should have /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2. Observe: | Code: | ~ # equery list -i openrc
* Searching for openrc ...
[IP-] [ ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8:0
~ # equery files openrc | grep 'net\.example'
/usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2 |
Perhaps you should re-emerge (--oneshot) openrc.
Second, could you post your /etc/conf.d/net file, please, and also report the version of openrc you're using?
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Barvinok
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Problem solved.
The cause for /etc/conf.d/net not working was that I set "newnet" flag for openrc, thereby invalidating "oldnet" ways of setting custom MAC.
But newnet approach through setting in /etc/conf.d/network is also not suitable since I use DHCP, because I was told that /etc/conf.d/network is for static addresses.
Finally, I had to write custom dhcpcd hook that reset interface mac before dhcpcd takes over. Here it is
| Code: | Dolphin ~ # cat /etc/dhcpcd.enter-hook
# Custom hook to fix wrong MAC on an interface
if [ "$reason" = PREINIT ]; then
if [ "$interface" = "enp3s0f5" ]; then
ifconfig $interface hw ether 00:1B:8C:7A:F0:28
ifconfig $interface up
fi
fi
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Also I made sure to not add /etc/init.d/network to rc-update and to add /etc/init.d/dhcp to it.
And everything finally worked as expected.
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Barvinok
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| John R. Graham wrote: | Well, first of all, you should have /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2. Observe: | Code: | ~ # equery list -i openrc
* Searching for openrc ...
[IP-] [ ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8:0
~ # equery files openrc | grep 'net\.example'
/usr/share/doc/openrc-0.11.8/net.example.bz2 |
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| Code: | Dolphin ~ # equery list -i openrc
* Searching for openrc ...
[IP-] [ ] sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8:0
Dolphin ~ # equery files openrc | grep 'net\.example'
Dolphin ~ # |
I was told these files (examples and net.lo) were moved to net-misc/netifrc for migration to newnet.
| John R. Graham wrote: | | Perhaps you should re-emerge (--oneshot) openrc. |
That does not help. Still no examples.
Besides, I do not need examples, because I'm perfectly aware of the method to set custom mac in /etc/conf.d/net -- I've been using it many times before.
The original question was absolutely unrelated to your suggestion.
| John R. Graham wrote: | | Second, could you post your /etc/conf.d/net file, please, and also report the version of openrc you're using? |
0.11.8, and my /etc/conf.d/net was posted in the message above yours, exactly one line prior.
Forgive me for being rude, but, really, it helps a lot if you read question before answering.
Thanks anyway.
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Well your post didn't look like your entire /etc/conf.d/net file, which is what I meant to ask for; sorry if I wasn't clear. Also, just the plain net_interfacename="mac-address" Works for Me™, so I was assuming you had made a syntax error somewhere and would benefit from the examples.
Glad you got it working, but I continue to believe there's a simpler solution.
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