Hi,
I have just replaced a faulty NIC in my server
When I do ifconfig it shows
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:BB:DE:9C:10
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:bbff:fede:9c10/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6625 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:293552 (286.6 KiB) TX bytes:7711608 (7.3 MiB)
Interrupt:17
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4A:08:F3:56
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4aff:fe08:f356/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:258 (258.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:214 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:214 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17436 (17.0 KiB) TX bytes:17436 (17.0 KiB)
It seems to have replaced ETH1 with ETH2. Yet it has not assigned the Static IP I have given the NIC
When on the Console I look at SYSTEM - PREFERENCES - NETWORK CONNECTIONS I see
System eth0 - this is set to the IP address above and the MAC address
System eth1 - this is set to the IP I want ( 192.168.2.97 ), has the Method set to Manual and also has Connect Automatically ticked
However I notice that the MAC address for ETH1 in the system console ( 00:E0:4A:08:9C:4D ) is different from that show by ifconfigfor ETH2 ( 00:e0:4A:08:F3:56 )
Q1. Why is ifconfig showing something completrly different i.e. ETH2 instead of ETH1 ?
Q2. Why is ifconfig only showing inet6 for eth2 and not inet ( i.e. IP v4 )
Q3. Is the Server console holding onto the old MAC address of the failed NIC ? Is there some sort of Discovery process I need to run ? Or do I need to manually change this MAC address on the server console for ETH1 to be the new MAC address i.e. that shown under ETH2 of ifconfig above ?
Any help appreciated
Jim