Hi... I have a customer running SLES11 SP1 and a layer 2 Vswitch. When we did the initial install, all went well, and all the clones behaved as expected. They did another from scratch install the other day and it seemed to go well. But when they cloned it, they started to have network trouble, and it ended up that they couldn't have their new master Linux and a clone of that up at the same time -- even though they had different IPs.
The problem turned out to be that for some reason the new master (and therefore it's clone) had a hardcoded MAC address (LLADDR=) in the network definition. So even though they had different IPs, they were trying to use the same MAC address. Removing the LLADDR= fixed the problem and both were assigned dynamic MAC addresses by the Vswitch. But the question was posed -- Why was it different than the first install? I wasn't there for the 2nd install, but they say they followed the same steps and chose the same options. And there was no LAYER2=1 in the network setup files. Anyone have any thoughts on what they might have done differently to cause the MAC address to become fixed on the Linux side? Thanks for any thoughts.. Lee -- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Computer Solutions Phone: (303) 996-7122 Email: [email protected] Web: www.siriuscom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
