[Gllug] Fedora 16 Ethernet (Again :-)

[Mick Farmer]

Dear GLLUGers,

My thanks to those of you who have made suggestions about my changing
MAC address with each new boot.

Delving further, I've discovered that I have a number of wired
connections as illustrated below.

[root at lapwing ~]# nmcli con
NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE
TIMESTAMP-REAL                    
Wired connection 4        642d38f5-d0d6-41cb-9037-c4545fa4d968
802-3-ethernet    Sat 28 Apr 2012 07:36:13 PM BST   
Davy's Greenwich          6b23e8be-3cf3-4860-9e78-e53fa830ea29
802-11-wireless   never                             
Wired connection 1        2d660df8-2887-4c48-8980-82a0a5d0f14d
802-3-ethernet    never                             
Wired connection 2        843319e9-e772-4762-8294-25690f6d1775
802-3-ethernet    Mon 16 Apr 2012 08:21:30 PM BST   
Plan 7                    00390583-a09a-40f3-8468-979da9570e70
802-3-ethernet    Fri 13 Apr 2012 08:09:28 PM BST   
Wired connection 3        51628883-a6e5-4b62-b7cd-e5fd3a8f4757
802-3-ethernet    Wed 18 Apr 2012 12:25:50 AM BST   
Plan 7                    6c5a1757-4630-4f7d-9cd4-22542d7ac325
802-11-wireless   Mon 16 Apr 2012 07:53:22 PM BST   
Orchard                   cd87a3c4-48d9-4c31-b4ad-6b79857622f5
802-11-wireless   never                             
Auto PlusnetWireless7VLWQF efeb791e-3f42-4abf-9af3-fe7e0421ae64
802-11-wireless   never                             
[root at lapwing ~]#

The first Wired connection 1 has a MAC address of 00:1B:B1:44:17:6D,
belonging to manufacturer Wistron Neweb Corp in Taiwan.  The other three
appear to be local values judging my their MAC addresses.

Could this proliferation be the problem I'm seeing, as outlined at the
beginning of this message?

What should I do to solve the problem?  Create an eth0 connection?

Thank you once again for any help you can offer.

Regards,

Mick

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