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Old 04-26-2006, 02:21 PM   #1
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Smile What file to modify to change a mac address or to save eth0 configuration


I have a complex problem, we are running SuSe 9.x server under vmware workstation. We are unable to get the eth0 to either save a static ip address or to change it to another mac address.
Does anyone have any suggetion as to what file we need to modify?
I know that VM work well witrh SuSe for I have other machines made up in it- it is just this particular server version seems to have a locked down file in it to prevent us from seeing our network.

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Old 04-26-2006, 03:49 PM   #2
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If you use a static address, the network card configuration dialog is a gui front end to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 configuration file, and this is what file is sourced when the network comes up.

I don't have vmware, so I don't know whether changing the value in a virtual machine would have any effect in the hardware.
 
Old 04-26-2006, 04:52 PM   #3
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FOund out that you have to "copy" the original file to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0.
Chances are that the directory will not be there so be sure and create if needed.
After that you run "rcnetwork" and it works like a charm.

I would imagine this would only apply towards VMWARE machines running VMXNET.

By the way this is a really cool way to do things...
 
  


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