Re: RHEL3 install hard coding mac address

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Christopher McCrory (chrismcc pricegrabber com) said: 
> 	I am doing some kickstart installs.  I'm doing these all on one server
> (at the office), then transporting the hard drives to the CoLo to slide
> into the servers.  I noticed that the install hard codes the MAC address
> of the one install machine onto every server.  A bunch of machines all
> with the same MAC address don't work well together ;)
> 
> 	Is this a feature?

Yes.

> What is the rational?

Stable device naming in the presence of ethernet device addition/removal;
it requires tracking the hardware address per device.

Bill