Proposal to Sync BMC's MAC Address to U-Boot environment

Ratan Gupta ratagupt at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 28 23:33:37 AEDT 2018


On 28/11/18 2:50 PM, Alexander A. Filippov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:05:32AM +0530, Ratan Gupta wrote:
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> We only restart the systemd-networkd during change of macAddress, if the
>> interface is DHCP Enabled.BMC should get new IP from the DHCP server if the
>> mac address has got changed. Do you still see a issue?
> Yes, and because by default is used DHCP and MAC address is randomly generated,
> it happens always at first boot or after resetting to the manufactured settings.
Do you mean to say that we shouldn't restart the systemd-networkd even 
mac address is getting changed? I think we should get the new IP as the 
mac address is changed.
>
>> It would be nice if you can publish your idea also.
>>
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/meta-phosphor/+/16245
Sure, thx would go through this change.
>> --
>> Regards
>> Ratan Gupta
>>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alexander
>



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