[ale] total server wierdness

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 17:36 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> A CentOS 6.6 system decided that the network setup was to be ignored.
> A single nic that was configured for static IP went bozo and switched
> itself into DHCP mode. The configuration was still static IP. It even
> showed it was checking for the static IP being in use before it
> finalized the setup and reported it was all OK. Then it goes and gets
> an IP address from itself since it's the DHCP server.

Sounds like a NetworkMangler drive-by.
> 
> There are 2 other nic and they had no problems. The problem nic is a
> 10G card and the other 2 are motherboard 1G.
> 
> 
> It was working without any issues for a year in this configuration.
> The last change was to add an Ubuntu 14.04 TFTP bootable kernel to the
> TFT server and menu for PXE booting new server configs.
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone seen anything like this before?
> 
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