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Re: Problem on MAC address



On Fri,19.Sep.08, 13:43:27, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Debian Etch (both Host and Guest)
> Xen
> 
> On cloning disk.img I suppose it also copies the MAC address of the
> original image to the new image resulting in "ping hostname" unable to
> find the new hostname.
 
I have no experience with Xen, but I see absolutely no connection 
between a disk image and the MAC of a network interface...
 
[...] 

> # nano /etc/network/interfaces
> making following change
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
>  address 192.168.0.116 = mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
>  gateway 192.168.0.1
>  netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> 
> Remark:-
> 
> Also tried;
>  address 192.168.0.116 = MAC of mac 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
>  address 192.168.0.116 = 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
>  address 192.168.0.116 = MAC of 00:16:3e:0a:c0:fb
> 
> 
> None of them worked.

Read 'man interfaces', especially about the 'hwaddress' option.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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