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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael D. Kralka
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:12 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: Network issue after new kernel install
Paul Norton wrote:
> On all of my CentOS 5 VMWare ESX3 virtual machines (about 15), after
> installing a new kernel and rebooting the machine, the Network script
> tries to run dhclient and can't determine the IP info (since I don't
run
> a dhcpd server... it's a static IP only lan). This also backs up my
> ifcfg-eth0 file to ifcfg-eth0.bak and writes a new ifcfg-eth0 that has
> dhcpd with no IP info. Copying the ifcfg-eth0.bak to ifcfg-eth0 and
> running /etc/init.d/network start or ifup eth0 brings my network back
up.
I have found that kudzu does this if it detects changes in the MAC
addresses of your NICs. Did you clone/copy your virtual machine and did
VMware regenerate MAC addresses for your virtual NICs?
Cheers,
Michael
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I had this as well. I found that if you configured you ifcfg interface
script with the MAC address included and uncommented, kudzu no longer
manipulated the file.
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