Lee Stewart wrote:
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.
I had a similar problem in Windows XP which I deployed with
virtualisation (I think Virtual PC as VirtualBox had other problems) and
a virtual machine preinstalled.
Everyone's virtual PC has the same MAC address. It worked, sort of, and
took me a while to nail the problem.
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Cheers
John
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