Michael D. Kralka wrote: > 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? Yes, these are all clones(From one base image). Would I just copy the MAC address given from VMWARE to the ifcfg-eth0 file? -- Paul Norton Systems Administrator Neoverve - www.neoverve.com Neoverve Blog - http://blog.neoverve.com/