From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 11:46:11 EDT
Well, both. I have to change from a Token Ring to and Ethernet adapter
which means the MAC will change. But I also have to move to an Ethernet
subnet which means the IP address will change as well (the hostname will
not change).
Bill Thompson
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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> WAN address or MAC address ?
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> Admins,
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> Our networking staff is working to eliminate the remaining Token Ring in
> our environment. I have to move a Control Workstation and one SP node
from
> Token Ring to Ethernet. This means a change in the WAN address.
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> I remember from class they said the best way to do this was to completely
> re-install the OS on the node (which is not a problem because the node in
> question is not in use right now). Is this still true? Having never done
> this can somebody give me a brief overview of the steps involved to make
> sure I don't overlook anything?
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> I don't remember going over how to change the WAN address of the Control
> Workstation. Is that just a smitty change or do I have to worry about
> changing something in SDR as well?
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> TIA
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> Bill Thompson
> Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
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