Agreed! I generally do that too unless I'm in an ethernet bonding situation where I want to make sure I specify the correct NIC as primary. Most of the time, it really doesn't matter. ...frd Johnny Hughes wrote: > 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.... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos