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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:28:08 -0800
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
Cc: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: natd, DHCP and W98 on LAN: The saga continues
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On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:51:06PM -0500, Dru wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Dru wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is Ethernet 0 a real (unused) NIC or some type of RAS, VPN, or dialup
> > > stuff?
> > 
> > Dunno. I do have a TCP/IP Dial Up Adapter listed in the Network control
> > panel.
> 
> 
> 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 (?!?)
> 
> 
> > % 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 told you this MAC was a problem last week, Jim. Did you ever try to
contact the author of the al(4) driver like I suggested?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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