Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 11 January 2013, Alan Cox sent: The MAC has to be *host* unique not port unique. Thus some old SPARC boxes have one Mac for all the ports. Many Ethernet bridges also do the same trick. I would have thought they'd need to be LAN unique, since the MAC is used for

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.01.2013 12:01, schrieb Tim: Allegedly, on or about 11 January 2013, Alan Cox sent: The MAC has to be *host* unique not port unique. Thus some old SPARC boxes have one Mac for all the ports. Many Ethernet bridges also do the same trick. I would have thought they'd need to be LAN

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-11 Thread Paweł Brodacki
2013/1/9 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote: Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way. Actually, it's even easier. NICs come

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Chambers
On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 16:13 +0100, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2013/1/9 Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: They are supposed to be unique *per machine* - you can have two nics on the same machine with the same MAC although this is rare. Alan Alan, please, verify information before

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-11 Thread Alan Cox
The MAC has to be *host* unique not port unique. Thus some old SPARC boxes have one Mac for all the ports. Many Ethernet bridges also do the same trick. There are examples of duplicate mac addresses on plug in cards but those are errors and shouldn't occur. -- users mailing list

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-10 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 01/09/2013 09:07 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote: Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way. Actually, it's even easier. NICs come with built-in six-byte MAC adddresses that are supposed to be unique. They are not random.

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-09 Thread Khemara Lyn
Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way. Regards, Khem On 01/09/2013 01:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, Khemara Lyn wrote: Dear All, Sorry if this had been covered before. How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system,

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-09 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote: Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way. Actually, it's even easier. NICs come with built-in six-byte MAC adddresses that are supposed to be unique. They are not random. ifconfig will give them to you. From googling, I

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0600 (CST) Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Khemara Lyn wrote: Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way. Actually, it's even easier. NICs come with built-in six-byte MAC adddresses that

RE: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-09 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:24 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:37:05

How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-08 Thread Khemara Lyn
Dear All, Sorry if this had been covered before. How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system, initially with a single NIC; now I've added another NIC and would like to create a new UUID to be used in the new network-script file (e.g. ifcfg-em2). I did some searches

Re: How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

2013-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, Khemara Lyn wrote: Dear All, Sorry if this had been covered before. How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system, initially with a single NIC; now I've added another NIC and would like to create a new UUID to be used in the new