Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is NIC with MAC = ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff OK? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012021605250.60602-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
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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: <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? > > 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
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