Doug Coats wrote: >> As far as I understand networking, if you only have 1 MAC, you only >> have 1 NIC. You might have 2 connectors, but that seems really >> strange. It seems like this is some sort of undefined behavior. I >> think that having only 1 MAC really *IS* an issue. > > I have used these boards(I have 6 of the same motherboard) for about 3 > years now with no problems, until I upgraded the OS this summer from > Fedora Core 4 to CentOS 5. With every windows install and Linux > install on these mother boards they report two separate nics that can > both be configured and active at the same time with the same MAC > address. > > Doug How can 2 nics from different companies have the same mac address .... I don't think that is possible. each card needs a separate MAC address, at least the way I understand networking. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070813/bcd81947/attachment-0005.sig>