Box from hell testing for FC3t2

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:06:13 -0400, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:43:33AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > >It even managed to rename my loopback device eth0 and create devices with
> > >names like dev1536.
> >
> > devices or network interfaces?? Did _you_ do that, or did that just happen?
> 
> network interface, and it did it not me. I think this was all part of the
> fallout when loopback got renamed eth0 because it thought it was a 3com
> 3c59x that probed with a MAC of 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> apparently our code is not robust in this case
>

Does it broadcast a MAC address of that on the wire.. if so that is evil.