Paul Norton wrote: > On all of my CentOS 5 VMWare ESX3 virtual machines (about 15), after > installing a new kernel and rebooting the machine, the Network script > tries to run dhclient and can't determine the IP info (since I don't run > a dhcpd server... it's a static IP only lan). This also backs up my > ifcfg-eth0 file to ifcfg-eth0.bak and writes a new ifcfg-eth0 that has > dhcpd with no IP info. Copying the ifcfg-eth0.bak to ifcfg-eth0 and > running /etc/init.d/network start or ifup eth0 brings my network back up. I have found that kudzu does this if it detects changes in the MAC addresses of your NICs. Did you clone/copy your virtual machine and did VMware regenerate MAC addresses for your virtual NICs? Cheers, Michael