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Q312461)

Description of problem:
When you want to change the MAC address of network card using MACADDR 
field in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* - this not works.
This worked fine in 7.1 and doesn't work in 7.2

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set MACADDR field to some valid MAC-Adress value in ifcfg-eth*
2. Run network restart
3. See, that HW address not changing. And when trying to
do: ip link set eth0 address xxxxxxxxxxxx 
in shell, you'll get the error message: "xxxxxxxxxx is invalid lladdr"

	

Actual Results:  HW address is not changing to the value of "MACADDR" 
field.

Expected Results:  HW Address should be changed to "MACADDR" field value

Additional info:

Actually, the ifup script in 7.2 uses "ip" util to manage the
interfaces, while 7.1 was using "ifcfg"

So, when I use:
ip link set eth0 address 0000F4AB9D47 
I get the error message:
"0000F4AB9D47" is invalid lladdr
and the MAC address not changing.

And when I try:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 0000F4AB9D47
Everything works fine...

So, to make things working right in 7.2, I was
forced to change the ifup script:

I'd replaced the section in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup:
if [ -n "${MACADDR}" ]; then
 ip link set ${DEVICE} address ${MACADDR}

with this one: 

if [ -n "${MACADDR}" ]; then
  ifconfig ${DEVICE} hw ether ${MACADDR}

(As it was in 7.1)