Problem setting up wired networking

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 12:29 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:48:25PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > ifcfg-eth0
> > 
> > #Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet Controller
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=static
> > DNS1=212.23.3.100	GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> > HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    Why that?  Surely not right unless your hardware is broken.
> 
> You will likely fare better with HWADDR line removed.

I would guess on a side-effect of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468360
or
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460747

Ralf