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On my teamed NIC, the MAC address keeps changing. How do I make it static?
In my experience, the NIC team uses one of the MAC address of the underlying NICs but it usually stays the same. I have had duplicate MAC address messages but when I looked it up it was a non issue. I set the MAC address manually to get rid of that message.
"NICTeam > Properties > Configure > Advanced > MAC Address > Value... and set it to whatever 12 hex characters I want (000012345678). Is this correct? "
That's the way I did it.
- BradSJul 27, 2022Copper Contributor
Hello, did you ever confirm if you can indeed set the NIC Team MAC address in Advanced setting and connectivity would still work?
I have very similar server setup: two teamed NICs and appears that one of the NICs (first) seems to present its MAC as the MAC that is presented when querying IPCONFIG /ALL. I am not onsite with server, so hesitate making any change that would make the server unavailable, unless there is (tested) process.
Yes, not seeing any instruction/details with Teaming on how the MAC is set and/or if it can be changed.
- DavidV61Jul 15, 2023Copper Contributor
BradS I followed directions written by @Benjamin Bartels and the Teamed NIC has connectivity. Expect an interruption when the Team NIC MAC is set, while the network adjusts.
I set the MAC address for all my Teamed NICs because otherwise after each restart my DHCP system would give me a different address.