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Date:      Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:52:52 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
To:        Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: natd, DHCP and W98 on LAN: The saga continues
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021547220.60602-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021547330.71156-100000@genisis.istar.ca>

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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Dru wrote:
> 
> 
> If you don't use it, remove it as it will cause problems. However, you
> seem to have a weirder problem on your BSD box as your NIC is using ARP's
> broadcast address as it's MAC address (?!?)
> 
I removed it and got ethernet 1 data moved to ethernet 0. Still no ping.

> 
> > % dmesg | grep al0
> > al0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x11 int a irq 5 on pci0.11.0
> > al0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > al0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)
> > al0: promiscuous mode enabled
> 
> Having never seen this before, are both NICs on your LAN set for
and
> running at full-duplex? Does "dmesg" make a difference if you stop your
> "tcpdump", as I think that's why the NIC is showing in promiscous mode.
> 
I'm not sure what you mean.
The second NIC has always had ff:ff... as its MAC.

Is there anyway to change that?

> 

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