On 06/02/2021 22:48, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:17:27 +0000, Steve Walker wrote:

I do it slightly differently. I have all my network on DHCP, but have
the DHCP server set to give the same IP addresses out to those MAC
addresses each time they connect.

So do I. Important since there are three different IP ranges, only onwe
of which is public.

Some Apple devices are a pain, as they do 'anti tracking' and report
random MAC addresses on each reboot.

I had the opposite problem, addresses being completely non-random. I
relegated one of my satellite boxes to the conservatory, put a new one
in the living room and restored the (OpenVIX) setup from disk - and
found that restoring the old setup to the new box also copied the old
MAC address to the new device, which I certainly did not expect!