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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I get my Pi4 (Fedora) to use a real and stable MAC
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:30:42 -0700
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On 9/15/2024 9:36 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Unfortunately you are probably the only one here that is using RedHat on 
> a Pi.

You may well be right about that.

> AFAIK, ethernet defaults to 'one permanent MAC address' - its only wifi 
> that tends to switch around for security in public wifi spaces.
> 
> Have you actually checked to see if you are getting ethernet randomisation?
> ifconfig -a will display it

Thank you for an actually useful suggestion. I had forgotten to check 
that and just assumed that was the cause of a change in IP address.