Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:10:45 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAC address trouble Message-ID: <20030111210906.X223@eldar.hayholt.org> In-Reply-To: <20030111204436.B223@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030111204436.B223@eldar.hayholt.org>
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> I did an upgrade of my LAN this morning from 10Mbits to 100Mbits (full > duplex). To do so i bought to Sitecom Fast Ethernet LAN cards (sitecom > chipset). > > After installation i found out that freebsd gave both the cards the same > MAC address (here is my arp output) > > 192.168.0.2 08-00-08-00-08-00 dynamic > 192.168.0.3 08-00-08-00-08-00 dynamic > > i also found out that these are not the MAC adresses they are supposed to > have (the DOS tool shows other MAC addresses). > > The driver both cards use is dc > > Can anyone tell me what is going on and if i can change the MAC of one of > the cards during boot. I know i can change them using > > ifconfig dc0 lladdr <newmac> > > but i need to do this at boot cause having the same MAC address i lose > contact to both servers. I've resolved the issue currently using /etc/rc.local i also found that this error is already discussed about on freebsd-stable an explanation of the error can be found here. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=amjkrm%241ke4%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DADM983%2B%252B%2Bfreebsd%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Damjkrm%25241ke4%25241%2540FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw%26rnum%3D4%26filter%3D0 Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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