FC5: MAC address retention in ifcfg-eth* files
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Fri Apr 21 23:59:43 UTC 2006
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Steve de Carteret wrote:
>
> We are trying out FC 5 in a classroom environment with removable hard drives
> and students change seats often.
>
> We are seeing MAC address conflicts when the HD is put into a different
> machine, interfering with interface functioning. Have not seen this
> behavior before.
>
> Any ideas how to turn this off?
Remove the HWADDR line from /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth*. I don't know how
easy it will be to keep it from being reset, though. The hardware
detector may update that field on boot.
>
> Steve
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>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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