Paul Norton wrote: > 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? > > If you move ifcfg-eth0.bak to ifcfg-eth0 after the first reboot, kudzu will not move it again (since all subsequent reboots will have the new "cloned" MAC address). I would probably just disable kudzu in the base image, unless you plan on adding/removing hardware in the future. Cheers, Michael