From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070223 CentOS/1.5.0.10-0.1.el4.centos Firefox/1.5.0.10 Description of problem: The system seems to be broadcasting the MAC address of eth1 on eth0 but flips back and forth: All of our OpenBSD machines logs fill up with this: arp info overwritten for 216.146.96.37 by 00:0e:0c:c1:5d:3b on bge0 arp info overwritten for 216.146.96.37 by 00:12:3f:24:35:9e on bge0 arp info overwritten for 216.146.96.37 by 00:0e:0c:c1:5d:3b on bge0 arp info overwritten for 216.146.96.37 by 00:12:3f:24:35:9e on bge0 arp info overwritten for 216.146.96.37 by 00:0e:0c:c1:5d:3b on bge0 -- ad nauseum -- 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:12:3f:24:35:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 216.146.96.37/23 brd 216.146.97.255 scope global eth0 : 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:0e:0c:c1:5d:3b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.10.16.37/20 brd 10.10.31.255 scope global eth1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.3.22.0.EL.4.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install 2 nics 2.assign each an IP address 3. Actual Results: MAC address for eth1 gets broadcast as being associated with the IP address of eth0 Expected Results: each interface should have one IP/MAC pair. Additional info: [root@web ~]# grep eth /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 e1000
Please add your local configuration (ifcfg-* files) and e.g. "ifconfig"/"lsmod". regards, Florian La Roche
proper configuration would bind the interface "eth?" to the device via HWADDR in the ifcfg-* file or via the system-config-network GUI.
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