FC5: MAC address retention in ifcfg-eth* files

Fri Apr 21 23:59:43 UTC 2006

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Steve de Carteret wrote:

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> We are trying out FC 5 in a classroom environment with removable hard drives
> and students change seats often.
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> We are seeing MAC address conflicts when the HD is put into a different
> machine, interfering with interface functioning.  Have not seen this
> behavior before.
>
> Any ideas how to turn this off?

Remove the HWADDR line from /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth*.  I don't know how 
easy it will be to keep it from being reset, though.  The hardware 
detector may update that field on boot.

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> Steve
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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