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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Docs/Getting started/Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) .md
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<h1>Set Fixed MAC</h1>
<p>If you prefer to manage IP assignments from your router instead of setting a fixed IP address, you can still set a fixed MAC address for the network interface on BMC. To do this, you need to edit the <code>/etc/network/interfaces</code> file in a similar way as you would for setting a fixed IP address.</p>
<p>Edit it to look like this:</p>
<pre># interface file auto-generated by buildroot<br><br>auto lo<br>iface lo inet loopback<br><br>auto eth0<br>iface eth0 inet static<br> hwaddress ether 12:34:56:78:9A:BC<br> pre-up /etc/network/nfs_check<br> wait-delay 15<br> hostname $(hostname)<br><br></pre>
<pre># interface file auto-generated by buildroot<br><br>auto lo<br>iface lo inet loopback<br><br>auto eth0<br>iface eth0 inet dhcp<br> hwaddress ether 12:34:56:78:9A:BC<br> pre-up /etc/network/nfs_check<br> wait-delay 15<br> hostname $(hostname)<br><br></pre>
<p>This will assign a MAC address: 12:34:56:78:9A:BC to the interface. You can easily generate random MAC address for example with this one line script:</p>
<pre>printf '%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n' $((0x02)) $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256))</pre>
<p><span class="wysiwyg-color-red">But you need to make sure that the assigned MAC is not already used by any device on the network. </span></p>
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