I have a Google Coral Dev Board acquired 4/19 and activated 4/22. When "Mendel GNU/Linux 5 (Eagle)" commences, I am able to successfully connect via wifi because the MAC address is permanent and I have provisioned an assigned IP for that MAC address. However, with the LAN eth0, there is something that is causing the eth0 to be assigned a random MAC address. I realize I can go back and configure eth0 to a fixed IP or possibly assign is a fixed MAC address, but it seems to me the LAN port ought to have a consistent MAC address, or if it is intended that random MAC addresses be assigned to the LAN port, there be documented a way to opt out of such a setting and just have the LAN have a consistent/permanent MAC address. My understanding is that manufacturers of LAN components have pre-assigned pools of MAC addresses that they can assign to each and every LAN product they sell so each has a unique MAC address. Maybe that practice does not apply to development boards?
From my dmesg -T
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] fec 30be0000.ethernet eth0: registered PHC device 0
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 5.4.0-k
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] igbvf: Intel(R) Gigabit Virtual Function Network Driver - version 2.4.0-k
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] igbvf: Copyright (c) 2009 - 2012 Intel Corporation.
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] NXP PHY: loading NXP PHY driver: [autonomous mode]
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] CAN device driver interface
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] fec 30be0000.ethernet: 30be0000.ethernet supply phy not found, using dummy regulator
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] pps pps0: new PPS source ptp0
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] fec 30be0000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Invalid MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
[Fri May 20 05:33:01 2022] fec 30be0000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Using random MAC address: 86:45:fd:f5:4a:37
What settings do I need to configure to prevent the random MAC address assignment?