Hi all, using latest unraid w/ docker set to macvlan and I have a static MAC set on the container in the extra parameters via setting

-mac-address 02:42:aa:00:ff:XX

This WORKS, however when I reboot the server itself and the container auto-starts up, it gets a random MAC. If i force-update the conatiner after that it pulls the static MAC I have set again.

Is there a way to make sure this always gets the static MAC even after reboots? I can't figure out why a server reboot is causing the MAC to randomly generate again.

NOTE: This is for VPN purpsoes and routing via UniFi firewall w/ a VPN client on the firweall. I want to ensure that the container always routes all traffic via the VPN and nothing else - if the VPN is down then the traffic should cease.

If there's a better way to go about this I'm all ears...

The last four octets are the IP address, so aa:00:ff:XX is 170.00.255.XX ( this may break if you set by parameters ) ..... I use fix IP for docker, so its MAC address also fixed.

Edited March 6Mar 6 by Vr2Io

FYI incase anyone finds this later - the mac address didn't follow the IP and kept changing (i had the docker IP set static and it still changed)

I ended up just using wg0 tunnel built into unraid to connect proton VPN and push the traffic for hte container thru that.