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| author | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2015-02-06 08:36:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> | 2015-02-06 08:37:13 +0100 |
| commit | 1c25683e0f40c6169676cc44fa1897082597feec (patch) | |
| tree | 6b8dd67e9ae2c381bf1e421ce668b49c9d774ba6 /man | |
| parent | ee46e555702715f1adcc3381dac73e76e2d9a048 (diff) | |
udev: net_setup - clarify reason for failure of persistent mac address policy
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.link.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml index 2cfe7107f8..d5c8b9968d 100644 --- a/man/systemd.link.xml +++ b/man/systemd.link.xml @@ -216,7 +216,10 @@ nothing is done. Otherwise, a new MAC address is generated which is guaranteed to be the same on every boot for the given machine and the given device, but - which is otherwise random.</para> + which is otherwise random. This feature depends on ID_NET_NAME_* + properties existing for the link, on hardware where these + properties are not set the generation of a persistent mac address + will fail.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |