On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote:
Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way.
Actually, it's even easier.
NICs come with built-in six-byte MAC adddresses
that are supposed to be unique.
They are not random.
ifconfig will give them to you.
From googling, I gather that network cards can have UUIDs.
So far I cannot find one for my eth0.
Maybe that is because my network card is the motherboard.
My ifcfg-eth0 does not mention a UUID.
network-functions does have UUID.
get_uuid_by_config seems to be at least one way to fetch a value,
but I don't understand it.
uuidgen emits a UUID to standard out.
It does not directly affect any NIC.
On 01/09/2013 01:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, Khemara Lyn wrote:
Dear All,
Sorry if this had been covered before.
How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system,
initially with a single NIC; now I've added another NIC and would like to
create a new UUID to be used in the new network-script file (e.g. ifcfg-em2).
Simply run uuidgen to create one
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