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sblantipodi
PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:43 pm 
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Hi,
after a yum update on my CentOS 5.3 I got this error when shutting down eth0 on reboot...

Shutting down interace eth0: Device eth0 has MAC address XXX instead of configured address XXX ignoring [FAILED]

What does it means?
Please help.
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Remove the HWADDR= line from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and this will go away.

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I thought I was being helpful by not being specific on the CentOS 5.4 upgrade thread. Oh well.
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This is an issue that CentOS just introduced, presumably in 5.4.

There was a deployment of CentOS a couple versions back -- I want to say 5.2 -- that may have had a slight oversight in its ifcfg-eth0 as shipped to customers. The MAC address of the virtual container we built the image on may have been included.

This apparently has never been a problem until now, so removing the HWADDR= line will fix these things going forward.

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jed wrote:
Remove the HWADDR= line from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and this will go away.


Really thanks jed.
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I'm guessing this is only impacting DHCP users?
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BarkerJr wrote:
I'm guessing this is only impacting DHCP users?

Your guess is as good as mine, as "users" is barely plural. One ticket and this post are all I've heard of it -- coincidence maybe, but if more people experience it we'll know it's an issue.

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