Under the MAC Address section, the handbook says "You don't need to emerge anything for changing the MAC address of your interface if you change to a specific address." I tried the example the handbook had and restarted the network init script (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart) and my MAC address did not change. I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.example and it said to emerge net-analyzer/macchanger in order to set a specific MAC address. I emerged macchanger and then restarted my init script (/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart) and it changed my MAC address successfully. There was even output that confirmed that it changed my MAC address "Changing MAC address of eth0 ... [ok]". The correction needed to correct this would be something along the lines of "You need to emerge net-analyzer/macchanger in order to change the MAC address of your interface."
*** Bug 117514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) I use baselayout 1.11.13-r1 (stable x86), and I have no calls to macchanger in my init.d/net. script. It doesn't even check for MAC address, let alone changes to it. conf.d/net.example does show the supposed functionality, but the actual init script doesn't have any calls to macchanger. How exactly does this work? What baselayout version actually works with macchanger?
"You don't need to emerge anything for changing the MAC address of your interface if you change to a specific address. However, if you need to change to a random address or a random address of a given type then you need to emerge net-analyzer/macchanger." You must have set it up to randomize the MAC address without having macchanger - and that probably was the cause of your problems. I've tested it on my machine, Gentoo has no problem to set to a static MAC address without having macchanger installed. Feel free to reopen if you don't think it may have been the real cause of your trouble.
BTW, before i close it for good: Which baselayout version you have? In unstable (1.12.0_pre12) which i use this problem doesn't seem to happen. In stable version (1.11.13-r1) it seems to be reproducible (i had two people who confirmed that). Maybe UberLord can put more light on this weird issue?
might want to test 1.11.14 to be sure
Confirmed to work with 1.11.14, thanks vapier.
baselayout-1.11 requires macchanger to change to a specific address. baselayout-1.12 does not have this limitation.
Added relevant information to the doc. Thanks for reporting and apologies for closing it too quickly.
