Comments on: Solving VMware network problems on Linux VMware guests

By: Harry Le

Harry Le — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:01:01 +0000

Hi,
In RedHat Linux, The MAC addr is stored in:
/etc/sysconfig/network file.
Good luck,
Harry Le
Rice University

By: Jeetendra Nigam

Jeetendra Nigam — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:27:43 +0000

My two Linux RHEL 4 dont communicate with each other, although they communicate to host individually.
I have changed ip address class but failed, I am working on desktop PC not conneced to lan.

Please help and suggest a wayout.

By: Anthony M Altemara

Anthony M Altemara — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:46:04 +0000

Check /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for any addresses. If not there, look in the /etc/ tree for that file. It’s there in RHEL4 but Fedora may have moved it. Find it with: #find /etc -name hwconf

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:39:40 +0000

What happens when you do the following:

[root@]# arp
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface
14-319-373.amis.local ether 00:07:E9:6A:3C:C3 C eth0
amisfw01.amis.nl ether 00:50:54:FF:1C:F0 C eth0
amisnt02.amis.local ether 00:06:5B:FC:88:6F C eth0
amisnt02.amis.local ether 00:06:5B:FC:88:6F C eth0

A few leeds I found (looks like the behaviour in Fedora 2 should be same):

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3341
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-2200BG.shtml

I’m not a linux expert, but I can imagine that if you use static or DHCP environment settings, this file maybe is OR is not created or needed when using for instance static.

By: Steve Morton

Steve Morton — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:22:31 +0000

I’m running Red Hat Fedora Core 2. I need to clone hard drives to create more machines. This also clones the MAC address of the original machine. There’s no entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 for the MAC address. Where is the MAC address stored ?

Thank you.