[clue] networking Q

[Mike]

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> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:51:59 -0700
> From: Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com>
> Subject: [clue] networking Q
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> Got a thinker for everybody.   We've got 4 VM's, running RHEL6.3.   If we
> let them boot normally, they hang when they start trying to boot the first
> ethernet.   if we set that ethernet to onboot:off, or just do a chkconfig
> network off, the system boots just fine.   If we then manually do a service
> network start or service network restart, it works just fine.  All the same
> network settings, no changes to any of the ifcfg-files.   Combing through
> messages and dmesg hasn't turned up anything that I recognize, but the only
> logical option that makes any sense at all, is that whatever process RHEL
> uses to start/configure the network without manual intervention is broken
> somehow.
>
> Mike Bean


Mike,

Out of curiosity, are the ifcfg files setup properly, and what I'm
specifically referring to is the MAC address, or the HWADDR in each of
the files, are they all correct for each system they are on?

Mike