[SGVLUG] Random MAC address.

[Matthew Gallizzi]

Mike,

There is a program called macchanger you could use to set the same mac
address on boot, maybe.

On 5/29/07, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I have been building this new server and have run into this issue
> where the mac address seems to be different every time the system
> reboots. Anyone seen this "feature" in new motherboards it is an
> Nforce based AMD dual core board. The even more fun part is the
> kudzu(centos 5 system) will see that the mac address has changes
> assume that the ethernet card has changed and create a new dhcp based
> network config (sense the mac address is different the system would be
> a different random ip address on every boot) even if you have put a
> static config in place. I disabled kudzu mostly salved that problem.
>
> Anyone have suggestion the bios has a field to enter MAC address and
> that does not help. This only really matters because I would like to
> wakeonlan this box but sense its mac address seems to be random it
> seems almost imposable.
>



-- 
Matthew G.
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