From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Fri Nov 25 23:17:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E0BC54CBB for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punasipuli@t-online.de) Received: from mailout12.t-online.de (mailout12.t-online.de [194.25.134.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailout00.t-online.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77913E24 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punasipuli@t-online.de) Received: from fwd11.aul.t-online.de (fwd11.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.152]) by mailout12.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B1F741F7232 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:07:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.10.43] (ZZm7imZEZh3lher83DFgG2UeFoWcKANPwDu5iFFT7fKVLEwJCeb8o59VjdvqryTQot@[86.56.56.128]) by fwd11.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) esmtp id 1cAPam-07aljE0; Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:07:40 +0100 Subject: Re: How to change MAC address on RPI-B? References: <001701d245ce$e64e33f0$b2ea9bd0$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> <454137dc-30f7-cd33-6c75-0cc3045090dd@t-online.de> <002801d24755$f9017420$eb045c60$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org From: diffusae Message-ID: <177ae37f-db52-c7ee-77fa-d9bc7d61b4ee@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:07:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <002801d24755$f9017420$eb045c60$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ID: ZZm7imZEZh3lher83DFgG2UeFoWcKANPwDu5iFFT7fKVLEwJCeb8o59VjdvqryTQot X-TOI-MSGID: cd5da6c5-0e3c-43ff-8993-8ba6197a72fe X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 23:17:41 -0000 Hi John, On 25.11.2016 20:56, John W. Kitz wrote: > So when doing so the locally administered MAC address is passed on from > uEnv.txt to the O/S during boot and is then used to override the globally I didn't think, that it will be passed from the U-Boot Enviroment settings. You can set the MAC address, but the FreeBSD kernel shows always the unique MAC address. > unique MAC address or does the O/S check both the information found in its > configuration files and what is configured in uEnv.txt before configuring > and activating the network interface(s)? Which configuration files do you mean? AFAIK there is only the FDT blob. I guess it ignores the setting in uEnv.txt. > Makes me wonder which of the two (i.e. locally administered through uEnv.txt > or locally administered through the O/S) takes precedence. Only the unique MAC address and the locally administered MAC address, will take affect. > In addition this might affect configuration decisions when one would want to > configure a device for net booting (at least when browsing through what can > be configured by means of uEnv.txt I believe that was one of the options I > saw) through uEnv.txt? Personally, I like u-boot. It has various options, runs on a lot of devices and it's also nice to handle. Best regards,