Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

On 10/13/2010 3:16 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:

On 10/13/2010 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

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But the ifcfg-ethX scripts don't run if the HWADDR entry doesn't match the NIC MAC. How do you get the right name connected to the right nic so you can even run ifconfig sensibly?

You don't *have* to use HWADDR in the ifcfg-* file. Just comment it out on the NIC that is having problems.

Whenever I've done that on machines with multiple NICs, they've all been renamed with a .bak extension and ignored, including the one I needed to be able to reach the machine at all. Could be that there were other changes at the same time contributing to this and maybe it will work if only one doesn't match.