Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:28:38 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfe/PXE problem Message-ID: <46083B06.9080005@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <200703261516.45003.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <E1HR5iG-0000YS-1p@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <200703261516.45003.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:02:43 am Danny Braniss wrote: >> the question now, is to see if the nfe driver can check if it was >> used by the PXE, and flip the address. or have NVIDIA comeup with >> a patch ... > > It could use a hueristic based on the vendor-portion of the MAC address to see > if it is flipped. It is probably a bug in the PXE rom when it shuts down the > card. > Presumably the mac address is from an nvida-assigned block so just check the vendor nibbles... Sam
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