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On my teamed NIC, the MAC address keeps changing. How do I make it static?
Windows server 2016, 2 NIC ports, teamed with Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver, no VMs, no VPNs, no load balancer. After rebooting, the MAC address keeps changing (based on IPCONFIG /all...
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.
Thanks. It seemed to make sense, but with the lack of documentation, I didn't want to assume. I'll give it a try.