Udev net issues

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Sep 2 15:56:12 UTC 2008


Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> In trying to swap a motherboard for the exact same type I kept having issues
> with the NIC not being started (network manager was disabled). I finally found
> 70-persistent-net.rules under udev had the mac address of the old nic as eth0
> so I moved this file out and rebooted only to see it was recreated as expected
> but had the old mac address? I finally edited the mac address and that worked.
> 
> Where in the world would it have gotten the old mac from?
> 
> Thanks,
> jlc
> 
Check .etc.sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface>. Probably
ifcfg-eth0 in this case.

Mikkel
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