Description of problem: On Fedora 26 when booting from a live cd or after installing, the MAC address that is being sent to the switch is invalid. This is causing it to fail to receive a IP address since it does not match its reservation on the switch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 26 How reproducible: When attempting to go online with a network switch that was configured with a DHCP reservation it is unable to get a reservation. When investigating on the switch, the mac address this computer is reporting was: "96c5d3f100040994df4100b14585bv30a8637e91141e", obviously much longer than a valid mac address. When I change to a network with an open scope it picks up an IP address immediately and works. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from fedora boot media 2. Attempt to go online using a DHCP reservation for the hardware MAC address Actual results: It fails to obtain an IP because the MAC address it reports is invalid. Expected results: It should report the hardware address correctly, and pick up an IP with a reservation. Additional info: Hardware is a Dell Optiplex 9020, BIOS A19. On this identical hardware the network works fine with openSUSE. "ifconfig -a" lists the correct mac address under eno1. Attempting to manually set the same MAC with "ifconfig eno1 hw ether xx..." does not fix it.
Hello, Thank you for reporting the issue. Unfortunately it's a long story https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154200 . The client send option 21 (client-identifier. see RFC2131) and router uses it. For installer there's RFE opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1357469 to disable option 21 during the istallation. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1154200 ***