----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Jessen"
david rankin wrote:
When I first installed SuSE 10, the network would come up and it used eth0:
Simply /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79
You're listing two different MAC-addresses in your posting:
00:4c:69:6e:75:79 and 00:04:5a:87:c8:43
That would seem to imply you've got two NICs. However, the first address isn't valid - the first 3 bytes are not registered at the IEEE (you can look them up at standards.ieee.org) - whereas the 2nd MAC is a Linksys address.
I don't what the story is with the first address, but try googling for it, and you get a number of direct hits.
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&q=00%3A4c%3A69%3A6e%3A75%3A79
And for a MAC address that is supposedly universally unique, I wouldn't expect an awful lot of hits in google.
Now that is really really strange! There are 372 posts out there on 00:4c:69:6e:75:79. How in the world can that happen? Is there anything that could cause SuSE to report the wrong mac address? Hmm... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --