mac address changed by ignite restore?

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

we used ignite to transfer a 10.20 system to another host. After running both machines in parallel we noticed some strange things happening during data transfer. We assume that ignite set the mac address of the other host. Is that correct and is that a bug or a feature? ;-)
I stumbled into it, because the switch, both hosts were attached to, was complaining about port flipping.

Thanks for any insight.

Michael

[Ralph Grothe]

Sounds unlikely to me that ignite set the wrong MAC addr., but I'm clueless.
Could it be someone is ARP spoofing in your LAN segment? ;-)

[Pedro Cirne]

I don't think Ignite set the MAC adress...Ignite sets the IP address not the MAC address..what strange things are happening? Have you corrected the DNS entry or the /etc/hosts to the new Name/IP adress?

Pedro

[Pete Randall]

Michael,

Check that the MAC address is not being set in netconf.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sorry - not netconf - it would be in your lanconf file: /etc/rc.config.d/hp*conf


Pete

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Pete,

thanks for the post, it is in there.
We are editing the file because sam refuses to change the address.
Is there a behavior change between 10.20 and 11. I have heard that with 11 it should work correctly.

Thanks for your time,

Michael