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From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>
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Subject: Re: troubles with ng_fec on -current
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:43:49 -0800
John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote:

[..]

> The only thing is that it could be that you aren't setting the
> ethernet hardware address on the four cards all to the same address...
>  The
> reason box1 gets through is that it is aliased to the arp address that
> maps to one of the cards.. the reason the other boxes don't go through
> is that the card isn't seeing the correct mac address to pass it's
> filter...
> 
> do something like:
> for i in 1 2 3; do ifconfig ste$i `ifconfig ste0 | grep ether`; done
> 
> and see if that fixes your issue...

thanks for your quick reply John-Mark.

Right now I don't have access to the setup, but I remember that the
MAC addresses of the 4 ports are the same once ng_fec is created...
Anyway, I will surely check this tomorrow. thanks again.

marco