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MrVmware9423
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Template Mac addresss issue

Dear Team,

I have RHEL6.1, Rhel6.2, RHEL6.4, RHEL6.5 Templates, whenever I deploy a new VM from these template then everytime I have to set MAC address on ifcfg-ethx and 70-persistent-net.rules, Need ur assistance on the same to resolve this issue.

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Mr Vmware

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Texiwill
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Hello,

You can try the customization spec for Linux, but to be honest I create a template where eth0 has no HWADDR inside it and you can auto modify 70-persistent-net.rules using a one time script in /etc/rc.local to drop the existing eth0 and change eth1 to eth0 something like this as /etc/rc.d/rc.runonce

sed '/eth0/d' 70-persistent-net.rules | sed 's/eth1/eth0/' > 70-persistent-net.rules; rm /etc/rc.d/rc.runonce

and add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

if [ -e /etc/rc.d/rc.runonce ]; then sh -x /etc/rc.d/rc.runonce; done

or something close to that...

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

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