On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 23:14, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 09:18 +0300, Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote: > > I had a similar behaviour when I copied the ifcfg-eth... files from a > > FC1 installation on the same machine after CentOS 4 installation. I > > suspect they changed the sequence of scanning the pci bus.I mean from > > bottom up and vice versa. Fortunately I had console access. > > This should only happen if you supply a value for HWADDR in your ifcfg- > eth<n> config file. You either need to make sure it matches the new > hardware, or take it out. I didn't set it on purpose anywhere, but it ended up in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0, apparently from the initial setup. After the drive was copied, the IP address was set with /usr/sbin/redhat-config-network-gui which until a recent update was all that was necessary. > The point of this code is for the case where some system change causes > an existing interface to be detected in a different order than some > earlier case, or someone simply wants to specify what name a specific > piece of hardware gets. If you only have one ethernet adapter, there's > no need to specify its MAC address, unless you want to name it something > other than eth0. And if you have multiple adapters and you are happy > with the names assigned during installation, the names will be > consistent except under a few specific situations. The machines in question have multiple NICs but only one is used - or it was until the update decided to ignore it... -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx