FS#38752 - [netctl] Make it possible to change ethernet MAC address

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Cougar (Cougar) - Friday, 31 January 2014, 20:39 GMT
Last edited by Jouke Witteveen (jouke) - Sunday, 02 March 2014, 17:39 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To Jouke Witteveen (jouke)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Hi,

I'm running archlinux on iMX233-OLinuXino-MAXI (http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/olinuxino). The problem with iMX233 is that it does not have any ROM/EEPROM for ethernet MAC address and it will be random. There exists some "hacks" to set up static MAC (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MAC_Address_Spoofing) but these are not simple enough to configure and run.

For me it looks much more native to do this task in netctl. So I added a new configuration variable "SpoofMAC" for ethernet connection profile for that.

Feel free to reject this patch if netctl isn't right place for it in your opinion ;-)

Cheers,

Cougar
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Closed by  Jouke Witteveen (jouke)
Sunday, 02 March 2014, 17:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jouke Witteveen (jouke) - Sunday, 02 March 2014, 17:39 GMT
You can add your line:
ip link set dev "$Interface" address "$SpoofMAC"
to an interface hook.

The reason these things are not part of the netctl configuration framework is that they make it impossible/very hard to get back to where you were before starting when you stop a profile.

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