From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 13: 8:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.bellnetworks.net [208.177.187.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F4937B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:08:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA60937; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:08:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.bellnetworks.net: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jim@www.bellnetworks.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is NIC with MAC = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff OK? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Windows does not seem to like a MAC of all ff's. Can someone help out here? On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jim Freeze wrote: > > > % dmesg | grep al0 > > > al0: 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? > > That's where my knowledge ends as I've never heard of a NIC showing a > MAC > >>address of all ff's. Any one else know what's going on? Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message