On Mar 10,  4:00pm, timo.schoeler@riscworks.net (Timo Schoeler) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kern/33047: fxp NICs are not useable on IBM Netfinity 4000R (

|  >  | e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.3.6-k2-NAPI
|  >  | e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
|  >  | e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfebff000, irq 9, MAC addr 00:06:29:DE:7C:29
|  >  | e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xfebfe000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:06:29:DE:7C:28
|  >  | fxp0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
|  >  | fxp0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 (irq 10)
|  >  | fxp0: Ethernet address 00:06:29:de:87:39
|  >  | inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
|  >  | inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
|  >  | fxp1 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8
|  >  | fxp1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 (irq 11)
|  >  | fxp1: Ethernet address 00:06:29:de:87:38
|  >  | inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
|  >  | inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
|  >  

I think I see what is wrong. The mac addresses are different. I don't
understand how that can be. Maybe there are two places to read the
mac address from and linux gets it right and we get it wrong.

christos