On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
dmaned - it is enough to enter the MAC at one place it does not matter that you have to look at udev and ifcfg the point is you do NOT need to put the MAC in both
And my point is that once the machine has booted and created the udev rule file, it will also have created matching MAC entries in the ifcfg-* files. It is as much work to remove them
uhm why they are existing at all? do you create your ifcfg-files with GUI crap?
No, it is anaconda or kudzu magic that happens before you would get to a GUI even if you used one. Delete your copies on a box where you have console access (or at least dchp) and see what you get after a reboot.
there where i work they do not exist since years and new machines are not installed from zero, they are cloned with existing configs and symlinks to the udev-rules in /root/
If the files exist and MACs are correct they normally don't change - but I'm not quite sure what triggers kudzu to change things.