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Changing Hardware addresses
Name: Gena Date: March 23, 2001 at 12:03:29 Pacific
Comment:
I am building a cluster and using DHCP to configure the net info on the nodes, but the hardware addresses being reported by the NICs are never the same as what is printed on the card, and sometimes these addresses change. Has anyone ever seen this, or does anyone know of a way to stablize this? Thanks.
Name: Mik Date: March 26, 2001 at 00:05:52 Pacific
Reply:
The hardware address is not always hardcoded. If the card and driver supports this then you can change it using the ifconfig command. Try "man ifconfig" to find out how.
Mik
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Response Number 2
Name: Gena Date: March 29, 2001 at 13:49:15 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the info -- I've tried that. What if the address changes after I've set it there? (That's what happened...)
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