On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:59 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Sameer Kamat wrote:
> > I believe the HWADDR assigns a particular MAC address to the card, if I
> > not wrong.
> > I do not know an easy way for it to decide to load the device based on
> > the mac addr ?
>
> I believe it'll force the mapping. Here's the relevant part of the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup script (reformatted to fit):
>
> # remap, if the device is bound with a MAC address and not the right
> # device num.
> # bail out, if the MAC does not fit
> if [ -n "${HWADDR}" ]; then FOUNDMACADDR=`get_hwaddr ${REALDEVICE}`
> if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then
> curdev=`ip -o link | awk -F ':' -vIGNORECASE=1 '/$HWADDR/ {
> print $2 }'` rename_device "${REALDEVICE}" "${HWADDR}"
> "${curdev}" || {
> echo $"Device ${DEVICE} has different MAC address than
> expected, ignoring."
> exit 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ignores error, fails to configure, and bails out with false.
"exit 0" would indicate success.
> }
> fi
> fi
>
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