Hello! Description of problem: Configuring a logically-assigned MAC address using system-config-network does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.3.96-1 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. type in a mac address in the system-config-network gui 2. save configuration 3. Actual results: The MAC address remains the same. Expected results: The network interface will run with a logically-assigned MAC address. Additional info: system-config-network sets the HWADDR variable inside ifcfg-<ifname>. This is used by the ifup-eth script to call a function called rename_device, which is defined inside network-functions. However, rename_device no longer changes the hardware address of an interface. Looking further into ifup-eth, I saw that there is another variable called MACADDR which is used to "ip link set" the mac address on the device. HTH, Andrei
s-c-network does not allow you to _set_ the MACADDR. It only provides a way to bind the interface name ("eth0") to a device with the specified HWADDR.