FAILED for eth0

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 21:31:58 UTC 2006


On 8/17/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But my question persists: should not Fedora automatically update MAC
> > addresses? And if it should, should one fill a bug at Bugzilla?
>
> I think it is intended behavior - that is, it goes out of it's way
> to not apply an existing configuration to a different NIC that it
> detects as the same eth? device regardless of the reason.  Personally
> I think that will do the wrong thing more times than right, but
> someone worked to make it happen like that.  If you don't like it
> you can just edit out the HWADDR line from the file.  Maybe you could
> file a feature request to make the GUI have an option to tie the config
> to the HWADDR or not.
>
> It can't really know if you swapped the NIC, added a new one that
> wasn't supposed to become eth0, removed one and let some other
> interface shift up to the eth0 slot, if the kernel detection
> order changed (again), or you've restored onto completely different
> but matching hardware.  Only in the swap or restore cases could it do
> something reasonable automatically.

Thanks, Les and Timothy, for your helpful comments.

Paul




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