On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:45 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > I think use of the "HWADDR=" bit in the ifcfg-ethX file ties a > specific NIC to an ethX name. That's why it's there in the first > place. It should do, but I've seen it blithely ignored. There's a protest, somewhere in a log, but the network configuration carried on working as if the hardware MAC were never put into the configuration. e.g. When I've pulled a NIC out of the box, and put another one in. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.