From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 8:15:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1794C37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED3843EEF for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:15:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBKGF7Kk016866; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBKGF7IB016865; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:15:07 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200212201615.gBKGF7IB016865@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: redjupiter@ntlworld.com, scott@smnolde.com Subject: Re: fxp0 device - Intel NIC Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3E033DA6.4030601@ntlworld.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:56:23 +0000 >From: redjupiter >>Changing the MAC was the easiest and fastest for me. Re-registering a nic >>with my ISP brings chills down my back. It's always faster for you to >>correct a mispelled MAC address in the file rather than talking to a >>support drone who wants you to boot into windows. >But wouldn't I have conflicts with the realtek NIC? since both must be >on the same machine which is my gateway. Unless you have an unusual (i.e., "pathological") network topology, no. The requirement is not "unique MAC address per NIC per host," but unique MAC addres per NIC per network (and you *do* have those NICs on different networks, right?). Note that until fairly recently, the MAC addresses reported by every NIC on a Sun machine was the MAC address of the built-in NIC. Cheers, david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org I have no confidence in results obtained through the use of Microsoft products. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message