systemd-udevd[5511]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for br0: No such file or directory
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Environment
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Situation
Having a setup with bridges and bonds, the following is written to the journal.log.
journalctl -b0 -u systemd-udevd | grep MAC May 11 11:09:16 server15 systemd-udevd[1030]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for br0: No such file or directory May 11 11:09:16 server15 systemd-udevd[1028]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for bond1: No such file or directory
Resolution
The message is harmless, it will not break anything. But to make the system not write the messages anymore. The following workaround can be used.
Create a systemd link file called /etc/systemd/network/98-default.link. Which matches on drivers and set the MACAddressPolicy to none.
Use ethtool -i <device> to expose the driver.
In this example the file will look as follows:
Create a systemd link file called /etc/systemd/network/98-default.link. Which matches on drivers and set the MACAddressPolicy to none.
Use ethtool -i <device> to expose the driver.
server15:~ # ethtool -i br0 driver: bridge version: 2.3 firmware-version: N/A expansion-rom-version: bus-info: N/A supports-statistics: no supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: no server15:~ # ethtool -i bond1 driver: bonding version: 3.7.1 firmware-version: 2 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: supports-statistics: no supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: no
In this example the file will look as follows:
server15:~ # cat /etc/systemd/network/98-default.link [Match] Driver=bonding bridge [Link] MACAddressPolicy=none
Cause
MACAddressPolicy=persistent is used by default.
For interfaces that doesn't have a persistent MAC address (most hardware should) 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. The option MACAddressPolicy=persistent enables this by default in /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link.
This feature depends on ID_NET_NAME_* properties to exist for the link. On virtual interfaces (such as bridges, bonds, etc...) these properties are not set hence the generation of a persistent MAC address will fail with:
For interfaces that doesn't have a persistent MAC address (most hardware should) 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. The option MACAddressPolicy=persistent enables this by default in /usr/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link.
This feature depends on ID_NET_NAME_* properties to exist for the link. On virtual interfaces (such as bridges, bonds, etc...) these properties are not set hence the generation of a persistent MAC address will fail with:
"Could not generate persistent MAC address for $name: No such file or directory"See for more information "man systemd.link"
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- Document ID:000020260
- Creation Date: 27-May-2021
- Modified Date:02-Jun-2021
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