[xen-tools-discuss] Re: Eth0 device on Debian guest on Fedora 8 Dom0

[Henning Sprang]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Anton Dollmaier
<antondollmaier at aditsystems.de> wrote:
>  > Hey, running into another problem that may or may not be xen-tools
>  > related.  When the xen-tools image was created I a MAC address for the
>  > guest Eth0 device was chosen.  Now if I try to change the vif= line in
>  > the config file to any other MAC address the guest OS fails to detect
>  > the Eth0 device.  Somewhere something is bound to this initial MAC
>  > address and so far I have failed to locate it and I can't find any
>  > similar problems online.  Do any of your know what I am missing here?
>
>
>  this is a debian, or specifically udev, issue:
>
>  check this file:
>
>  /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

Yes, the details and solution are Debian specific, but in Fedora, too,
there are measures taken that ip configs and eth names are bound to
specific MAC's - so the concept is generic (without setting an
explicit statement about which distro does a better job in the
implementation ;) )

Henning


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