From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; MSOCD; T312461) Description of problem: Using netcfg to specify an ethernet MAC address causes ifup and ifdown to recurse forever. netcfg puts a HWADDR entry into the ifcfg-eth1 parameter file that looks correct. The scripts appear to notice the entry and exec back to themselves forever. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run netcfg and change MAC address for eth1 2. Save configuration 3. Start interface with "/sbin/ifup eth1" - never returns 4. Turn on script verify and watch lines scroll endlessly Actual Results: /sbin/ifup never returns. Abort it. Try /sbin/ifdown. Also never returns. Expected Results: Network interface up/down as requested with custom MAC Additional info: The card is the second ethernet card on the system. Both are HP J2585B rev 0 cards using the hp100 driver. There is an additional entry in modules.conf to force the HP100 driver to look for the second card: "options hp100 hp100_port=0,0". eth1 uses DHCP through a cable modem. If I delete netcfg's HWADDR entry in ifcfg-eth1 and manually set the card's ethernet address (with /sbin/ifconfig eth1 hw ether xxx) everything works. ifup completes, DHCP resolves using the new MAC, and packets come and go correctly. Another netcfg bug: netcfg silently overwrites (actually deletes) the modules.conf entry for the hp100 driver whenever it saves a new configuration.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.