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Thomas Haller authored
On devices that have no real permanent hardware address (as returned by ethtool), we take the current MAC address of the device. Currently, NM is a bit flaky about whether to accept such fake permanent addresses for settings like keyfile.unmanaged-devices or the per- connection property ethernet.mac-address. Probably, we should allow using fake addresses there in general. However, that leads to problems because NetworkManager itself changes the current MAC address of such devices. For example when configuing keyfile.unmanaged-device=22:33:44:55:66:77 and later activating a connection with ethernet.cloned-mac-address=22:33:44:55:66:77 we have a strange situation after restart and the device becomes unmanaged. We are going to avoid that, by remembering the fake permanent address in the device state file. This only matters: - for devices that don't have a real permanent address (veth) - if the user or NetworkManager itself changed the MAC address of the device - after a restart of NetworkManager, without reboot. A reboot clears the device state for /var/run/NetworkManager.
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