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| author | Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> | 2004-03-17 02:42:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> | 2004-03-17 02:42:07 +0000 |
| commit | 20a7ac6f32f08103646ffe4b555231e1dea3f741 (patch) | |
| tree | 8aa489103e52d3737f65348fdb130ecc02a77e5a | |
| parent | 29cc108b3be859335293941a082e04f5da78df53 (diff) | |
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document MACADDR. fix one of the bizarre interactions with HWADDR.
note that you shouldn't try this at home. (#110427)
| -rw-r--r-- | sysconfig.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt index ed31d3b4..b258a2d9 100644 --- a/sysconfig.txt +++ b/sysconfig.txt @@ -539,6 +539,10 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ use the specified source address for outgoing packets HWADDR= ethernet hardware address for this device + MACADDR= + Set the hardware address for this device to this. + Use of this in conjunction with HWADDR= may cause + unintended behavior. If BOOTPROTO is not "none", then the only other item that must be set is the DEVICE item; all the rest will be determined diff --git a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown index d5d23c20..a6136d23 100755 --- a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown +++ b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ fi # Check to make sure the device is actually up check_device_down ${DEVICE} && [ "$BOOTPROTO" != "dhcp" -a "$BOOTPROTO" != "bootp" ] && [ -n "$VLAN" -a "$VLAN" != "yes" ] && exit 0 -if [ -n "${HWADDR}" ]; then +if [ -n "${HWADDR}" -a -z "${MACADDR}" ]; then FOUNDMACADDR=`get_hwaddr ${REALDEVICE}` if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then NEWCONFIG=`fgrep -il "HWADDR=${HWADDR}" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*` |