Paul Norton wrote:
Michael D. Kralka wrote:
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?
Yes, these are all clones(From one base image). Would I just copy the MAC address given from VMWARE to the ifcfg-eth0 file?
If you move ifcfg-eth0.bak to ifcfg-eth0 after the first reboot, kudzu will not move it again (since all subsequent reboots will have the new "cloned" MAC address).
I would probably just disable kudzu in the base image, unless you plan on adding/removing hardware in the future.
Cheers, Michael