[CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

Tue Aug 4 19:12:27 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Brett Serkez<bserkez at gmail.com> wrote:
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> # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=none
> HWADDR=00:40:F4:CE:E6:7B
>
> So now I know what the original MAC address was.

Is it possible for the MAC address to be changed physically on the
NIC?   I doubt that.  In SW, you can have an alternate MAC address,
but I doubt that it can be changed on the NIC. That's burned into the
NIC at the factory.