 | | | RHEL3 install hard coding mac address | RHEL3 install hard coding mac address 2003-10-28 - By Bill Nottingham
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Christopher McCrory (chrismcc@(protected)) said:
> I am doing some kickstart installs. I 'm doing these all on one server
> (at the office), then transporting the hard drives to the CoLo to slide
> into the servers. I noticed that the install hard codes the MAC address
> of the one install machine onto every server. A bunch of machines all
> with the same MAC address don 't work well together ;)
>
> Is this a feature?
Yes.
> What is the rational?
Stable device naming in the presence of ethernet device addition/removal;
it requires tracking the hardware address per device.
Bill
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