i have a Netgear XR500 router it builds a network map with every known device. and my pi is added again and again becaus of the different mac adresses every restart. this screws my qos settings as well. every new device gets a fixed percentage of bandwith... i think you got the point...
so i looked around the www for 4 hours now and found nothing. so please help me out! im not a unix pro btw. but something like: "connect with ssh and go to /etc..... open with nano and add .... line" should work for me
I need to set a mac adress for the pi-hole!!! simple reason: my router creates a new unamed device every restart. because the mac is never the same as before. this is a huge problem because my qos settings are prozentual so with 5 total devices i set 80% bandwith to gaming pc and rest (5% each) for the other devices. 20 restarts later everything gets completely screwed because i have 25 devices now. and all the 20 new devices got some bandwith from every existing device. so in the end everything is on isdn speed exept the pi.
oh dear... it is not about my os... it is my router! i have a netgear XR500 with dumaos and this has qos 2.0 anti bufferbloat and all the fancy gaming stuff. problem is it is adding another unnamed device (pi-hole) ervery restart. so my animated network map gets fuller and fuller and the manually chosen bandwith allocations are useless because there are more and more pi´s every day...is there a way to show you a screenshot? i think this would show you what i mean so you would instant understand my problem.
ok understand so far but im shure there is a way to set a permanent mac somhow in any config file would you please point me in the right direction? im not that experianced with unix... i tryed this:
I don't know what OS you are using? You should search for the name of your distribution and "how to set static mac", I'm sure you will find what you are looking for.
ah sorry i thought the pi-hole is the os. so im using a pi zero as host with the enc28j60 network adapter.
the pi-hole runs under a debian distribution. but thanks alot! i think this was the hint i needed i will continue on my own frome here.
and i dont want to waste your time with newbie questions
I gave him a couple more reboots and made some screenshots as well so the Outputs from pi match what the router sees. And the qos screenshots are a perfect Illustration of my Problem. Over time my whole Network gets no bandwith.
Tue 18 Aug 08:46:36 BST 2020
eth0 UP 8e:f9:76:9a:a2:2f <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP>
Tue 18 Aug 09:07:13 BST 2020
eth0 UP ea:81:b0:23:99:5a <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP>
Ok thats a local MAC address and not a Universal vendor one:
You must have software running on the Pi that configures this local MAC address at boot or something.
The stock Raspbian distro for the Pi doesnt do this ... yet i believe.
Cant help you with that as i dont know what distro your running and what software and no experience on the matter.
You can manually set local MAC with below (method 2):
so i got to that point before... than i tryed to find out how to change the mac and found something similar to your link (method2). but once i read the instructions one thing really hold me back... i did the whole setup without screen or keyboard. i just flashed the card, put it into the pi and from there on i ssh´ed my way to the web interface. followed the tutorial from linus tech tips. the point is obvius once i put the device down to change the mac i will loose the access to it. and yes it has wifi so i could use wifi but this way is a bit tricky for me first i would have to reconfigure my v-lans and bring a not vpn´ed router into my main ethernet and than set up wifi on the pi via commandline yay! i hoped to avoid that way... isnt there any config or boot file where i can put the command?
i already tryed this one here but sadly wont work...
