Hello

 

I have installed Unraid on an old PC with a i3 6100, an H110 motherboard, 3 HDD and 1 SSD it works fine, I've also added a network card in the x16 slot to have a 2.5gbit network link

 

The issue I have is that the mac address of this card (eth0) change every time the server is rebooted

 

Is it normal?

How can I keep it lock to a specific value?

The gigabit chispet of the MB is disable in the bios

I use a lot the wake up on lan feature since it's not a heavily used nas, it's in sleep most of the time

and if I have to reboot then I need to update the mac address in all of my script and app that are use to wake up the server

12 minutes ago, BiLKiNiS said:

Is it normal?

 

I wouldn't think so.  What is the make/model of the 2.5GBe card?

it's a generic brand from amazon (Inatek) that use a Realtek RTL8125 chipset

 

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller (rev 05)

Edited February 18, 20233 yr by BiLKiNiS

Please post a couple of the diagnostics showing the issue.

Here are the diagnostics but to show the issue I might need to reboot the server witch possible at the moment but I think it will show the same thing except in the ethtool log were the mac address will have change

 

Looking for a generic fix for this I found some tips that recommand to add a row to the boot/config/network.cfg file:

HWADDR="00:00:00:00:00:00" (with the mac address you want or

MACADDR="00:00:00:00:00:00"

 

I might try this an reboot the server when possible to see if it corrects my issue

 

Edited March 4, 20233 yr by BiLKiNiS

I've since rebooted and the MAC address did not change so the solution to my problem was to add a new line in the network.cfg file with HWADDR="00:00:00:00:00:00"