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Thanks. I'll resist the temptation to mess with it again now!

Thanks a lot guys, I've got it working. :D service network restart pointed out that the MAC was wrong for eth1. I corrected it and can now reboot and keep the network configuration. To summarise, for future reference: After using VMware converter, the original eth0 nic was removed and eth1 created. ...

I've put the settings in ifcfg-eth1 and rebooted, but the nic is still down at startup. I copied the ifcfg-eth0 file to the new name to ensure it was the same, and changed the device= line. I've also tried changing device= in the original ifcfg-eth0 with the same result. Close to a solution now but ...

Great, thank you. I'm getting somewhere now. I was not familiar with the -a option for ifconfig and had been trying to bring up eth0, which no longer exists and is now eth1. I used ifconfig eth1 up. Then set the IP, mask and gateway. I was then able to ping and access the Nagios interface. Unfortuna...

Thanks for your reply. The same nic is still present in the VM settings, and I've tried adding another of the same type, but still nothing from ifconfig. I've seen Windows VMs lose their IP settings after a conversion, but I always see a network card. I think possibly it gets a new NIC sometimes, so...

I need to move an instlalation of Nagios 3.4.1 on Centos from an ESX 4.1 host to a 5.1 host. I have run a conversion with the vcenter standalone converter. When I power up the converted machine, I am unable to ping it. When I type ifconfig, no eht0 adaptor is displayed, it is there on the machine be...