<div dir="ltr">Brett,<br><br>I think the following link answers your question about the MAC changes. You may find more useful links on the resources page of the Running Xen site <a href="http://runningxen.com/resources/">http://runningxen.com/resources/</a>.<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-02/msg00030.html">http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-02/msg00030.html</a><br><br>If you performed a fresh install without Xen, you would notice that it has not permanently modified the MAC address of your system.<br>
<br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Matt<br clear="all"><br>--<br>Mathew S. McCarrell<br>Clarkson University '10<br><br><a href="mailto:mccarrms@gmail.com">mccarrms@gmail.com</a><br><a href="mailto:mccarrms@clarkson.edu">mccarrms@clarkson.edu</a><br>
1-518-314-9214<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Brett Serkez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bserkez@gmail.com">bserkez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> Maybe because you are looking at the bridge's mac and not the<br>
> ethernet's which would be peth0.<br>
<br>
</div>No I am not. dmesg shows the kernel messages at boot and it is<br>
looking at the physical device, let's not get distracted, the issue is<br>
clear in this regard. As I previously stated, this happens even when<br>
uninstalling XEN and booting off the non-XEN kernel since the install<br>
of XEN.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> indeed, AFAIK all hardware adapters start with 00. This must have been set<br>
> in the BIOS or with a boot option or in the network config.<br>
<br>
</div>This was helpful, gave me places/incentive to continue looking.<br>
<br>
In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 I found:<br>
<br>
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet<br>
DEVICE=eth1<br>
BOOTPROTO=none<br>
HWADDR=00:40:F4:CE:E6:7B<br>
<br>
So now I know what the original MAC address was.<br>
<br>
Here is where it gets interesting. The following file was modified at<br>
the date/time that the XEN kernel was first booted:<br>
<br>
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf<br>
<br>
and it has fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff for BOTH network adapters:<br>
<br>
desc: "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet"<br>
networfe:ffddr: fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff<br>
vendorId: 10ec<br>
deviceId: 8169<br>
subVendorId: 10ec<br>
subDeviceId: 8169<br>
pciType: 10<br>
<br>
desc: "Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller"<br>
network.hwaddr: fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff<br>
vendorId: 8086<br>
deviceId: 1050<br>
subVendorId: 8086<br>
subDeviceId: 303a<br>
<br>
Everything I'm finding is re-enforcing my original theory that XEN<br>
modified the hwaddr of this NIC.<br>
<br>
The question continues to be what caused this and how to change it<br>
back. Given this is a stock system, I have to believe others must<br>
have/may run into this issue.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Brett<br>
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