On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote: > 2010/10/13 Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. >> <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I just tried a full powerdown with NTP deactivated. The >>>> system came up, the time is fine. >>>> >>>> Not that the time on the motherboard should necessarily >>>> affect the MAC on an expansion card, but that was a good test >>>> nonetheless. >>> >>> I'm suspicious (as others have suggested) the card itself is bad. I >>> think to suspect the flash chip that stores the MAC addr. The rest of >>> the card may be perfect. Using it long-term might require no more than >>> a manual edit of the init script for it adding something to this effect >>> 'if MAC == zeros; then set MAC to 00:0a:cd:1a:c1:71 fi'. This will fix >>> this card without clobbering it's successor down the road. >>> ******************************************************************* >>> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and >>> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom >>> they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please >>> notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this >>> email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. >>> www.Hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated** >>> >>> >> >> Brian, >> >> While those suspicions were well justified I am not sure your guess is >> correct in this particular case as I just swapped the NIC I had for a >> different one and I seem to be getting the same sort of errors again. >> What's the likelihood that two NICs in a row have a faulty flash? > > Well, you can set new mac address also manually on ifcfg-ethX script > .. or ifconfig .. > > -- > Eero > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > OK... how do I set it? Or, more importantly, how do I find out what MAC the card currently thinks it has? Boris.