Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:10:46 -0500 From: Sandro Mancuso <sandro.m@videotron.ca> To: "'Defryn, Guy'" <G.P.Defryn@massey.ac.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ethernet address Message-ID: <000c01c1bf4d$1d800240$6400a8c0@windows> In-Reply-To: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F35E6@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz>
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The address shown in FreeBSD is not the real one. I have a SMC card (dc0) that does the same thing. I had two actually, and at the time two dhcp assigned IP's. You can imagine the headaches this caused when both had that same MAC address. I'm guessing its simply cards that aren't 100% compatible or something. Using static IP assignment (internal and external IP's) they work perfectly well even at 100mbit full duplex (according to my router anyway ;-)). As is the case with you, putting them on my windows 2000 workstation gave me entirely different MAC addresses At any rate, the card is good... (my guess is) it just doesn't like freebsd as much as the other cards. I can tell you from experience that dlinks work well, and of course 3com and intel NICs > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Defryn, Guy > Sent: February 26, 2002 3:18 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: ethernet address >=20 > A while I ago I installed freebsd with a 1207-tx network card > The Ethernet address showed up as 08:00:08:00:08:00 > After I registered it on the network my freebsd system was > networking fine. >=20 > I needed a machine for NT4 server do to some testing so I removed my > freebsd > drive and installed a new one with NT4. > It was not networking and when I ran Ipconfig it showed up with a > totally > different Ethernet address. >=20 > The card is still the same. Is there a reason why I get two > different > addresses? >=20 > thanks >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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