Jerry Geis 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 actually tried setting the HWADDR= to another NIC's value, did not
matter file still replaced with a DHCP type file.
I tried removing the HWADDR and file was still replaced with a DHCP type
file.
Strange thing is I have 2 identical motherboards M2N-MX ASUS, two
identical network cards. the other machine
appears to running fine... Its just this one machine that gives the bad
MAC message in dmesg and will not keep its IP address.
Do you have files under /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/?
I've seen those override the ones in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts but
I've never found documentation for the circumstances that cause them to
be used. I usually delete them all to avoid surprises.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
