Old MAC's retained after being changed in web interface
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FOG 1.58 on Ubuntu 16.04…
We have a number of laptops which do not have NIC ports on them and we’ve been using a USB-CAT5 adapter to image them. We PXE boot using the USB adapter’s MAC address, then after imaging we change the MAC address back to the internal MAC on the laptop. The next laptop we image using the same method, but this time it says that the MAC address (USB Adapter) is being used by the previous laptop even though we changed it to the internal MAC. We discovered that if we image a device using the USB adapter MAC we must DELETE the host completely after imaging and rebuild it using the internal MAC. Changing it does not wipe out the USB MAC setting. Not sure if you’re aware of this glitch but thought I’d pass it on for future updates/fixes. I didn’t see anything previously reported in the forums. -
@jyost said in Old MAC's retained after being changed in web interface:
FOG 1.58
We don’t have a team of developers to backport fixes so this needs to be verified an issue in the latest dev-branch version. We won’t be able to help you with a fix for 1.5.8.
With that said we can still see if this is really a bug or just a missunderstanding. From what I remember when you change a MAC address it will add the old one as a secondary MAC to that Host. And I think there was a bug in 1.5.8 web UI that did not show the secondary MACs (were somehow hidden). Please see if that’s the case.
