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[Alain Wolf <878188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its not NetworkManager.

According to the NetworkManager.conf manpage the no-auto-default has
nothing to do with it.

Doing a Google search for that specific MAC address aa:00:04:00:0a:04
tells a different story.

http://www.fantaghost.com/2010/06/eth0-mac-address-fixed-on-
aa0004000a04/

Apparently installed DECnet software can do this on your system. I have
found libdnet, dnet-common and xtrans-dev on my system. But don't ask me
how it got there.

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Title:
  Network Manager assigns incorrect MAC address to eth devices

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10, my MAC address for my Ethernet
  connection was changed to a default value. My actual MAC address for
  the device is not used. I have confirmed this by upgrading two
  separate laptops, and both had their Ethernet device MAC addressed
  changed to the same default value. Neither were able to connect to a
  restricted LAN without adding this (new) MAC address to the MAC
  filters.

  The first laptop uses a wireless connection (using broadcom restricted
  drivers), and the second laptop uses wired Ethernet connection.

  When booting to recovery terminal, the MAC address is the correct
  (original) value.

  NetworkManager.conf contains the following:
  no-auto-default=aa:00:04:00:0a:04

  I removed this, but this did not change anything. Both laptops now
  have a MAC address of aa:00:04:00:0a:04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct 19 08:19:58 2011
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1  proto static 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1  scope link  metric 1000 
   192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.102  metric 2
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (5 days ago)
  mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2011-10-19T07:59:32.227864

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