[CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first, I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this issue has something to do with how CentOS handles network setup on first boot of the XEN

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 14:43 +0200 schrieb Brett Serkez: Ran into a strange issue with XEN on CentOS that I think is specific to CentOS, which is why I'm starting by posting to this list first, I'll post on the XEN list depending on responses. My sense is this issue has something to do

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Sergey Smirnov
Hi, This commonly happens when you using Xen in the bridged mode (when you reboot your system the first time, this is default Xen configuration). You have to change your configuration to routed mode if you want to prevent that in future. You can get more info about network in Xen going by links

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brett Serkez wrote on Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:43:28 -0400: My understanding of the HWaddr is that the first portion is manufacturer assigned for uniqueness, I cannot image this NIC originally had this HWaddr, but I don't know what it originally was. Indeed, AFAIK all hardware adapters start with

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sergey Smirnov wrote on Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:14:48 +0400: This commonly happens when you using Xen in the bridged mode (when you reboot your system the first time, this is default Xen configuration). You have to change your configuration to routed mode if you want to prevent that in future.

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Christoph Maserc...@financial.com wrote: snip When Xen starts does some trickery with your interfaces. You should see FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF on device peth0 and the real MAC-address on device eth0. All Xen vif devices will show also MAC FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. That is

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Brett Serkezbser...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Christoph Maserc...@financial.com wrote: snip When Xen starts does some trickery with your interfaces. You should see FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF on device peth0 and the real MAC-address on device

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Brett Serkezbser...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Christoph Maserc...@financial.com wrote: snip When Xen starts does some trickery with your interfaces. You should

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Brett Serkez
Maybe because you are looking at the bridge's mac and not the ethernet's which would be peth0. No I am not. dmesg shows the kernel messages at boot and it is looking at the physical device, let's not get distracted, the issue is clear in this regard. As I previously stated, this happens even

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Brett, I think the following link answers your question about the MAC changes. You may find more useful links on the resources page of the Running Xen site http://runningxen.com/resources/. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-02/msg00030.html If you performed a fresh

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Brett Serkez wrote: Maybe because you are looking at the bridge's mac and not the ethernet's which would be peth0. No I am not. dmesg shows the kernel messages at boot and it is looking at the physical device, let's not get distracted, the issue is clear in this regard. As I

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Norris
Brett Serkez wrote: - Investigation concluded the issue was that the HWaddr address of the physical NIC matched the fabricated HWaddr that XEN uses for most of its adapters: FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. I had the same problem after (IIRC) a kernel panic. After a few rounds of research and ineffective

Re: [CentOS] Strange XEN on CentOS HWaddr Address Issue

2009-08-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Brett Serkezbser...@gmail.com wrote: snip # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:40:F4:CE:E6:7B So now I know what the original MAC address was. Is it possible for the MAC address to be changed