Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:38:25 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc NIC: mac address gets reset (5.0-REL) Message-ID: <20030120223824.GJ49032@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030120215433.2bed4bb4.benlutz@datacomm.ch> References: <20030120215433.2bed4bb4.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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In the last episode (Jan 20), Benjamin Lutz said: > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a machine that was running > 4.7-RELEASE-p3 before. I've got a problem with my network card: > > After rebooting the system, it's MAC address is reset to > C0:00:C0:00:C0:00. The card works fine otherwise (apart from some > "dc: failed to force tx and rx to idle state" messages that are, as > far as the mailing lists tell me, uncritical). This of course makes > the DHCP server give me another than my standard IP. Also, if I > install FreeBSD 5.0 on another machine in my LAN, and it shows the > same behaviour, i'll run into problems. > > I can manually change the MAC address back to its old value, then > restart dhclient, and it works. However, I don't want to have to do > that after every reboot... I think this is a known problem. You can probably work around it by creating a file "/etc/start_if.dc0" with the single line: ifconfig dc0 ether 01:23:45:67:89:AB That should force the mac address before dhcp starts up. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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