On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
> Le 05/10/2015 18:54, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
> Yes, changing the MAC address of a real network interface can be done to fool a DHCP server (I don't see any other reason),
> but this is done in user space, after the kernel has registered it.
> Out of curiosity, why are the virtual Ethernet given random addresses?
> It looks like a means to increase disorder with no reason. I bet it's not your choice.

At least with the g_ether driver, you can actually use a fixed MAC
through module arguments!

A common fixed default wouldn't probably cut it if you need more than
one g_ether device at a time, and a system-specific default has been
used by Debian to add gratuitous systemd dependencies to Gummiboot ;)