FAILED for eth0

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Smith wrote:

> On 8/17/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
>> > That is solved!
>> >
>> > With 'ifconfig -a' I got
>> >
>> > HWaddr 00:14:85:38:2C:93
>> >
>> > but in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 it was
>> >
>> > HWADDR=00:30:4F:2B:8C:84
>> >
>> > (Different addresses!)
>>
>> Wow! That is odd... did you change network cards recently? But I am
>> thinking that kudzu would probably have detected the change, and written
>> the new MAC address into the configuration file.
> 
> Yes, Chong, I did change my Ethernet card. I suppose that kudzu runs
> at boot time and it did not write the new MAC address into the
> configuration file.

As a matter of interest, you don't have to have HWADDRESS
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 .
I don't think people normally do give their MAC addresses there.
(I certainly don't.)


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