Cannot set a specific MAC address for a bond or team in RHEL7

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Issue

  • Need to ensure a bond or team always uses a specific MAC address. Setting the MACADDR parameter in the ifcfg file does not work as expected.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Bonding
  • Teaming
  • NetworkManager

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