Eero Volotinen wrote:
2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi wrote:
2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. BBrunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
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I'm suspicious (as others have suggested) the card itself is bad. I think to suspect the flash chip that stores the MAC addr. The rest
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While those suspicions were well justified I am not sure your guess is correct in this particular case as I just swapped the NIC I had for a different one and I seem to be getting the same sort of errors again. What's the likelihood that two NICs in a row have a faulty flash?
I'd start worrying about the m/b slot. Have you tried a different one, if one's available?
Well, you can set new mac address also manually on ifcfg-ethX script .. or ifconfig ..
OK... how do I set it? Or, more importantly, how do I find out what MAC the card currently thinks it has?
Well, ifconfig?
It really doesn't matter, just generate random one..
edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
Remove HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 add MACADDR=WH:AT:YO:UW:AN:T0
It should work this way and then just service network restart ..
I think I'd leave the first three octets alone - that's just the manufacturer's code. Oh, and I doubt any non-hex chars would work....
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