HWADDR variable in RHAS 3

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:44:19 -0500
Harry Hoffman <hhoffman at ip-solutions.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this:
> 
> IBM 306 with 3 e1000 cards, 2 onboard and 1 add-on PCI.
> 
> After an up2date of the kernel to 2.4.21-20.ELsmp (and a reboot to use 
> the new kernel) eth1 and eth2 flip-flopped.
> 
> I tried to manually force the cards to be associated in a specific order 
> by setting the HWADDR variable in:
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[x]
> 
> but this caused an error (which didn't get logged to /var/log/messages 
> but was displayed on the console) to the effect of "Can't assign MAC to 
> eth2, already in use" [my paraphrasing]. (This is a production box so I 
> had to get it back working and couldn't spend more time testing)
> 
> 
> I quick search on bugzilla showed this to be a bug in earlier releases 
> but also stated that it was now fixed.
> 
> So, before I open a new bug report has anyone else seen this behavior 
> under RHAS-3 (Update 3)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry
> 
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