Re: How to autoconfigure network?

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

happymaster23 wrote:
> No this is not solution. I have tried to run firstboot but without
> result. There should be some script, that is making these files
> (including writing MAC address and full device name). Other thing is
> modprobe.conf - there is name of driver connected to device name
> (eth0, eth1, e.g.), but there is not solution how to change all that
> things when you are swapping ethernet card...

Basically you need to put the ethernet MAC address of the new card in 
the HWADDR= line of the appropriate ifcfg-eth? file.  Assuming you are 
talking about Centos 5.x, the devices are renamed to match these files 
based on the hwaddr entries even if they were detected in a different 
order.  But some conditions that I don't understand may trigger all of 
these files to be renamed with a .bak extension at bootup and new 
default dhcp configs created instead.  This is never fun when your only 
access to the machine is through the network.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


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