[CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi nic machine
Dave K
davek08054 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 13:02:11 UTC 2007
On 8/15/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > I agree with Doug and Johnny. My belief is that every NIC in the world
> > is supposed to have a unique MAC address.
>
> Everyone believed that except DECnet which expected all cards in the
> same machine to have the same MAC.
I guess you haven't worked with Sun systems lately. Although every
Sun NIC does have it's own MAC address, by default the system uses one
MAC for all of them. I have yet to decide if this is a Good Thing or
not....
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Dave K
Unix Systems & Network Administrator
Mount Laurel NJ
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