On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 04:58:20PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Sa, den 10.04.2004 schrieb Rick Lim um 18:13: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I have just changed network cards and the old network card still seems to be > > > there .... > > Delete the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and let it entirely > > create a new one by using redhat-config-network. If you are experienced > > enough you of course could edit that plain text file by hand too. Then > > please keep care to have the MAC address (HHWADDR) of the new card in > > the config file, else the new card would not work properly. > > > > I don't know. I have never had the MAC address in a ifcfg-eth0 file. There are enough ISP's out there that use the MAC address as an authentication token that deletion of this information could be a mistake. It is better advice to move these old config files to a safe place then rebuild the configuration with standard tools. If it all works after the reconfiguration then delete the backup file. If you discover that you need a fragment of information in the backup you have it. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
