Description of problem: Prerequisites: 1. Mellanox 27500 SRIOV adapter with 63 virtual PCI functions, mlx4_en driver. 2. QEMU 3. Fedora 23 guest. Simply run a guest with -device vfio-pci,host=0003:03:01.1 and record the MAC address of a single eth device. Shut down the guest, change the host address to 0003:03:01.2 and start the guest again - MAC address will the same as recorded. Both 0003:03:01.1 and 0003:03:01.2 are virtual functions, not a real PCI device. The host driver assigns a MAC for every virtual function and keeps this information until reboot. The guest driver sets random MAC address during boot and it can be seen from dmesg. However when I get to the console, "ip addr" shows the same MAC, always, it is cached somewhere but it is not in udev rules nor in the network scripts. This is the config: [root@dyn45 ~]# cat /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link [Link] NamePolicy=kernel MACAddressPolicy=none If to replace virtual functions with QEMU-emulated Intel E1000 device and change its MAC via the command line, this MAC address makes it all the way to "ip addr" in the guest so MACAddressPolicy=none works fine for it. MACAddressPolicy=random does work too. I am looking for an option in systemd to make it not touch MAC at all, is there such a thing? Thanks.
Reloading mlx4_core and mlx4_en results in an "eth0" interface (not enp0s0f0) having a new random MAC address. However restarting some service (it is not easy reproducible but suspects are NetworkManager and systemd-udev-trigger.service) brings an old MAC back. Ubuntu 15.10 systemd version 225 does not have this issue. FC23 is running 222 afaict.
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