Ethernet card without HWaddr / MAC address ?
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Sat Aug 13 15:56:37 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:24, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
>
> and when using ifconfig:
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
> inet6 addr: fe80::fdff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4294960281 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb800
>
> which seems correct ?
>
> My questions:
> - what about an ethernet card without detected HWaddr ?
> - does it prevent to use it for pppoe or any Ethernet connections ?
A MAC address of all 1's (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) is the broadcast address.
You need to check the configuration files to see if the MAC address has
been set to this. If it has it won't work.
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