Specify MAC address in kickstart

[Harry Hoffman]

While I'm not 100% sure, I think you may be able to accomplish this via 
boot parameters

'man bootparam' shows that ethernet devices can be assigned based upon 
IO and IRQ:
ether=irq,iobase[,param_1[,...param_8]],name
ether=0,0,eth1

This would, of course, require you to know the io address and the 
interrupt but it sounds doable.

If you decide to go this route I'd be curious to hear how it works.

Cheers,
Harry


Jason Kohles wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Vimal Kumar wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a query from a customer who has four network interfaces in his 
>> server and while doing a kickstart, he want interfaces with 
>> particular MAC addresses get assigned the name eth0, eth1 etc..
>>
>> ie.. He wants the interface with MAC '00:14:5E:B3:56:F4' be eth0, 
>> interface with MAC '00:14:5E:A7:0B:B8' be eth1 and so on..
>>
>> I was only able to locate the directives for the 'network' section in 
>> kickstart, specified below. Are there any directives available to 
>> configure MAC addresses or is there a work around for this.
>>
> The only way to do configuration that kickstart can't do directly, is 
> to write the configuration files yourself from a %post script
>
> %post
> cat <<END > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> HWADDR= 00:14:5E:B3:56:F4
> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> END
>
> cat <<END > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> HWADDR= 00:14:5E:A7:0B:B8
> IPADDR=192.168.1.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> END
>
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