This is a big issue. The Mac address of the bonded interface is stuck at 88:88:88:88:87:88
Why this is bad. If you have two unraid servers. That you paid 120 license for on each. They create a network storm if they are both on the network. Frankly they would do this if you paid nothing. There is no way to change this... unless you disable bonding... then the mac address for the unraid host is the Actual mac address of the network interface it is bonded to.
I've tested a lot to fix this. None of it fixed things. There is no place in the GUI that I found or in the text files that I have found that allocate this to be a place to be changed. Even 70-netrule edits do nothing... even if you alter /boot/config and update scripts before the OS boots.
This prevents people from having a backup system and a main system. I have the same hardware on each system. Mobo/cpu/ram. Disks are different. graphics cards the same. Big picture. mobo is the same.
Bigger picture: Please fix this obvious bug that forces the same mac address on a bonded interface.
Related research: https://old.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/igjyjw/help_needed_unraid_mac_address_locked_to/
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