Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:33:07 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'ATeslik@aol.com'" <ATeslik@aol.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ping win/FreeBSD probs Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D01@site2s1>
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I'm sorry to say I don't know how you would change how freebsd sees your mac address. I don't think you can. It may be that the pn driver is not compatable with your card, as you suggested in another posting. man 4 pn, says that it's compatable with the following cards: ...PCI ethernet adapters and embedded controllers based on the Lite-On 82c168 and 82c169 fast ethernet controller chips. This includes the LinkSys LNE100TX, the Bay Networks Netgear FA310TX revision D1, the Matrox Networks FastNIC 10/100, certain adapters manufactured by D-Link and Trendware, and various other commodity fast ethernet cards. I can tell you that mac addresses are NOT dynamic. To my knowledge they are hardwired into the card. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: ATeslik@aol.com [SMTP:ATeslik@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 6:19 PM > To: caught@prodigy.net > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; samba@samba.anu.edu.au > Subject: Ping win/FreeBSD probs > > Okay, > > I'm starting to get excited now because I think someone from the > Samba lists has pushed me in the right direction here. To recap: > > I can't ping my win machine (192.168.1.2) from my FreeBSD box > (192.168.1.3) > and vice versa. Both subnet masks are 255.255.255.0 and ipfw is not > running. > I loaded the dos config program for the card on my BSD machine (by booting > > off DOS floppy first ;) ) and noticed that the mac address is > 00:a0:cc:36:16:5e > > HA!!! > > 'ifconfig -a' says: > > pn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 87:ff:87:ff:87:ff > media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) > supported media: autoselect 100baseT4 100baseTX <full-duplex> > 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> > 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP > > That mac address is wrong!! I'm salivating now. Soooooo, how do I change > the > mac address to the correct one? I tried > > ifconfig pn0 address <mac address> > > and > > arp -S pn0 <mac address> > > to no avail. I'm reading furiously on the man pages and feel like I can > alllllmoooossstt > touch it. Just a little nudge more of help 'o' gods of the lists? > > Alex > > P.S.- are mac addresses dynamic? Do they change with every boot? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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