[CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi nic machine

[Dave K]

On 8/15/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > I agree with Doug and Johnny. My belief is that every NIC in the world
> > is supposed to have a unique MAC address.
>
> Everyone believed that except DECnet which expected all cards in the
> same machine to have the same MAC.

I guess you haven't worked with Sun systems lately.  Although every
Sun NIC does have it's own MAC address, by default the system uses one
MAC for all of them.  I have yet to decide if this is a Good Thing or
not....

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Dave K
Unix Systems & Network Administrator
Mount Laurel NJ