Duplicate MAC error

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Issue

  • Cloned virtual machine from VMware vcenter and ran into this error:
  Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring.

Environment

  • VMware vcenter
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

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