Mike,<br><br>There is a program called macchanger you could use to set the same mac address on boot, maybe.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Proctor-Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mproctor13@gmail.com">
mproctor13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So I have been building this new server and have run into this issue
<br>where the mac address seems to be different every time the system<br>reboots. Anyone seen this "feature" in new motherboards it is an<br>Nforce based AMD dual core board. The even more fun part is the<br>kudzu(centos 5 system) will see that the mac address has changes
<br>assume that the ethernet card has changed and create a new dhcp based<br>network config (sense the mac address is different the system would be<br>a different random ip address on every boot) even if you have put a<br>
static config in place. I disabled kudzu mostly salved that problem.<br><br>Anyone have suggestion the bios has a field to enter MAC address and<br>that does not help. This only really matters because I would like to<br>wakeonlan this box but sense its mac address seems to be random it
<br>seems almost imposable.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew G.