[SGVLUG] Random MAC address.

[Sean O'Donnell]

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Michael Proctor-Smith wrote:
> Sean I think you can fix your problem with udev of coase I have no
> idea exactly how, but yours is a common problem that udev rules can
> solve. If you figure it out let me know you or even do a little
> presentation on it.
> 
> 

Thanks, Michael.

On slamd64 (Slackware 11 64-bit 'unofficial' port), I do notice a udev
configuration file for network devices.

/etc/udev/rules.d/network-devices.rules

This file doesn't exist in any other Slackware version I've used
(although I haven't used the 32-bit version of Slackware 11), so this is
news to me.

I did notice that inside that file, my nic cards were all already
listed, but commented-out.

# KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:50:8d:95:c4:19", NAME="eth0"
# KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:50:8d:95:c4:1a", NAME="eth1"
# KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:02:e3:17:ff:88", NAME="eth2"

Removing the comments and rebooting, all seems to work.

Cheers! =)

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Sean O'Donnell
South Pasadena, CA

sean at seanodonnell.com
http://seanodonnell.com

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*The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
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