From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 15:29:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BE014DFD for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <40N6F1H0>; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:30:01 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D01@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'ATeslik@aol.com'" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ping win/FreeBSD probs Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:33:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 ) > supported media: autoselect 100baseT4 100baseTX > 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP > 10baseT/UTP 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 > > and > > arp -S pn0 > > 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