#2065 PR merged: network: Record permanent mac address when device is enslaved in a Team, or else /etc/mac-addresses will record broken information¶
Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done
rmetrich opened issue at 2019-03-04 11:08:¶
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Type: Bug Fix
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Impact: Normal
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Reference to related issue (URL): See PR https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1954
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How was this pull request tested? Tested on RHEL7 with a Team on eth0 and eth1
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Brief description of the changes in this pull request:
Use "ethtool -P" as the preferred method to retrieve the MAC address.
Otherwise fall back to other methods, which may lead to some invalid MAC
address when using Teams.
rmetrich commented at 2019-03-05 11:34:¶
@pcahyna Can you test on your system (I did of course, but just want to be sure)
pcahyna commented at 2019-03-05 11:48:¶
@rmetrich I will and report the result. Thanks!
pcahyna commented at 2019-03-06 23:40:¶
I tested your patch with and without LACP (teaming only) and it indeed fixed the issue for both cases. I haven't checked bonding for regressions yet.
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