Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-11-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have what appears to be a truly puzzling problem. I've got this P4 32-bit machine running CentOS 5.5 with XEN that has two NICs: one onboard, an Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit and one on an expansion

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-11-29 Thread Lucian
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flatorder=ASCtopic_id=19571forum=40#forumpost73378 Looks like there is a whole special repo for this sort of drivers. Has anybody used it? How is it? Elrepo is

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 10/13/2010 09:28 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: What's happening is, it is showing up under one of the two MAC's: either 00:0a:cd:1a:c1:71 or 00:00:00:00:c1:71. If you reboot it the MAC stays the same; if you shutdown and do a full powerdown it seems to change. I would say the card is

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 09:28 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: What's happening is, it is showing up under one of the two MAC's: either 00:0a:cd:1a:c1:71 or 00:00:00:00:c1:71. If you reboot it the MAC stays the same; if you shutdown and

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Giles Coochey
On 13/10/2010 18:37, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin Franzjfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 09:28 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: What's happening is, it is showing up under one of the two MAC's: either 00:0a:cd:1a:c1:71 or 00:00:00:00:c1:71. If you reboot it

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Timo Schoeler
On 10/13/2010 06:46 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: On 13/10/2010 18:37, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin Franzjfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 09:28 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: What's happening is, it is showing up under one of the two MAC's: either

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Giles Coochey
On 13/10/2010 19:00, Timo Schoeler wrote: On 10/13/2010 06:46 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: I've tended to find that when a card is failing the MAC address starts setting itself to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF not 00:00:00:XX:XX:XX FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is broadcast. Sorry... in order to qualify my statement

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: I just tried a full powerdown with NTP deactivated. The system came up, the time is fine. Not that the time on the motherboard should necessarily affect the MAC on an expansion card, but that was a good test

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: I just tried a full powerdown with NTP deactivated. The system came up, the time is fine. Not that the time on the motherboard should necessarily affect the MAC

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: I just tried a full powerdown with NTP deactivated. The system came up, the time is

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: I just tried a full powerdown with NTP

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread m . roth
Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/10/13 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: snip I'm

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:28:27PM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: Hi all, ... Any idea what all of this mess could mean? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4317 Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xBEFA581B

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/13/2010 1:55 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: I just tried a full powerdown with NTP deactivated. The system came up, the time is fine. Not that the time on the motherboard should necessarily affect the MAC on an expansion card, but that was a good test nonetheless. I'm suspicious (as

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Jerry Franz
On 10/13/2010 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: But the ifcfg-ethX scripts don't run if the HWADDR entry doesn't match the NIC MAC. How do you get the right name connected to the right nic so you can even run ifconfig sensibly? You don't *have* to use HWADDR in the ifcfg-* file. Just comment it

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/13/2010 3:16 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: On 10/13/2010 1:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: But the ifcfg-ethX scripts don't run if the HWADDR entry doesn't match the NIC MAC. How do you get the right name connected to the right nic so you can even run ifconfig sensibly? You don't *have* to use