On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:36:55PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > You can save yourself some trouble with this as anaconda can do the MAC > digging for you - from command-line.txt of anaconda docs: [...] > helpful for provisioning systems. Includes MAC address > of all nics in a CGI environment variable of the form I remember looking at this, but avoiding it because of the case of a system with several NICs. How do you know which is the one that talks to the server? I was not sure if you could assume that it was the first one (#0). And I am not sure if dhcpd lets you assign the same IP to two different MAC addresses. Which might be a bad idea anyway, depending on your circumstances. To be fair, the case of a system with multiple NICs was more hypothetical than otherwise in my setup, but I preferred erring on the side of caution: if someone swaps cables, DHCP requests get ignored, making the problem more obvious - in other environments this could be the wrong thing to do. All of this leads to another question, though: how to deal with machines with several network adapters? A classic example is a laptop with both Ethernet and 802.11. -- Rudi
