On 04/25/2017 12:32 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: > Hi, > > we are trying to switch our bonding modes from 1 (active-backup) to 6 > (balance-alb). However it seems, that these bond devices are not > always getting the MAC address from the same slave. Sometimes the > device gets the MAC address of the first and sometimes of the second > slave. Since only the MAC address of the first slave device is (can > be) registered in DHCP, this breaks connectivity (about) every second > time we boot the computer. > > Is there a way to control which MAC address is assigned to the bonding > device w/o configuring it explicitely in the ifcfg file? can you set it at bonding time with the nmcli command?