On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:17, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Michael Sternberg, from the post of Mon, 10 Feb: > > > Errr... MAC address or IP address? Why the hell play with the MAC > > > address? > > > > Because they all coming from production facilities with MAC > > of 00:00:00:00:00:00. I just have to change it to something > > reasonable in bootloader. > > <jaw dropped> say WHAT?
Hold your horses, people... *Every* NIC chip comes out of the factory with MAC address 0. Before selling a NIC card to a consumer, the vendor burns in it a MAC out of its bank. But if *you* are the vendor, you have to do it yourself. Michael, I take it you're using hardware produced in your own company? -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
