[CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 20:14:32 UTC 2007
Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On 15 August 2007, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> Everyone believed that except DECnet which expected all cards in the
>> same machine to have the same MAC. The address should be stored in a
>> ROM and initialized at startup, so it is probably a firmware or driver
>> bug.
>
> Les: On multiport cards, do the NICs all have different MAC addresses
> and do they all use the same driver? The OP has a board where the 2 NICs
> use different drivers. Seems like DECnet did not have a better idea
> there.
All NICs everywhere are supposed to have different MAC addresses. And
I've never seen different ones on the same board need different drivers
before except for fancy servers that have a built-in management
interface that might be a 10/100 NIC while the main ones are 10/100/1000.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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