[beagleboard] Physical address of the Ethernet port on beagleboard-xm

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You can use ifconfig command to check the ip address

Thanks,
Jyothi
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It is a USB port off of a USB HUB.

Gerald

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On the board, it's randomly generated on every bootup..

so parse 'dmesg' and find out...

Regards,

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Hi Praveen,

Robert is correct, it is randomly generated, every time you boot up the MAC address is different.

It is really annoying !!!

If you want your router to assign you a fixed IP address , you need a fixed MAC address , REALLY ANNOYING !!!

This is what I do , when my Beagleboard xm boots , I add the following lines to a script that runs at boot up time :

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether C6:00:25:73:A7:2A up
udhcpc -q

What this does is takes down the ethernet interface and brigs it up again with a fixed MAC address.
I add a rule to my router that assigns me a fixed IP address based on the MAC address C6:00:25:73:A7:2A.

This way, my beagleboard uses DHCP to obtain a IP address but always gets the same IP address which is what I want.

I am sure there are many ways to achieve the same result, but this is what I do.

Scott.

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hi ,
Is the mac is stable for next boot by changing with ifconfig command