[CentOS] centso 5 modifying my ifcfg-eth[x] files

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:21 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > Jerry Geis wrote:
> >> Only thing to add here is the network card does work, however I
> >> get a dmesg output that eth1 has an invalid MAC address.
> > 
> > Asus mainboard? 
> > 
> >> Is that invalid MAC address changing my setup? I dont think it should.
> >> granted I'm still looking at finding a way to reset he MAC address or
> >> something but I dont think the ifcfg-eth files should be modified.
> > 
> > The random address is different from the one which is in ifcfg-eth* from
> > installation. 
> > 
> >> This seems like a bug- that is the reason for the post.
> > 
> > Yes. Googling around hints at this being a BIOS bug. Also see
> > <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1949>.
> 
> Can you fix this by removing the:
> HWADDR=
> line from the ifcfg-eth* files?  Most of my machines have swappable 
> drive carriers and I routinely swap them and clone machines by dd'ing 
> the raw disks.  If I remove the HWADDR entry I can assign the IP 
> addresses when building the disks and have it come up correctly when the 
> disk is installed in some remote machine.  I suppose someday this will 
> break when I'm not looking, but it has saved me a lot of trouble over 
> the last several years.  Now if the kernels would just be consistent 
> about the order they probe the devices and assign the eth* names....

I was going to suggest trying that too....
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