Agreed! I generally do that too unless I'm in an ethernet bonding
situation where I want to make sure I specify the correct NIC as
primary. Most of the time, it really doesn't matter.
...frd
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Only thing to add here is the network card does work, however I
get a dmesg output that eth1 has an invalid MAC address.
Asus mainboard?
Is that invalid MAC address changing my setup? I dont think it should.
granted I'm still looking at finding a way to reset he MAC address or
something but I dont think the ifcfg-eth files should be modified.
The random address is different from the one which is in ifcfg-eth* from
installation.
This seems like a bug- that is the reason for the post.
Yes. Googling around hints at this being a BIOS bug. Also see
<http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1949>.
Can you fix this by removing the:
HWADDR=
line from the ifcfg-eth* files? Most of my machines have swappable
drive carriers and I routinely swap them and clone machines by dd'ing
the raw disks. If I remove the HWADDR entry I can assign the IP
addresses when building the disks and have it come up correctly when the
disk is installed in some remote machine. I suppose someday this will
break when I'm not looking, but it has saved me a lot of trouble over
the last several years. Now if the kernels would just be consistent
about the order they probe the devices and assign the eth* names....
I was going to suggest trying that too....
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