Re: tulip MAC and 2.3.xx

[Steve Whitehouse <steve@gw.chygwyn.com>]

Hi,

under 2.3.xx you must change the MAC address. In order to have the
option of not setting the MAC address, it would require the
introduction of an extra flag in the device structure to indicate
if a particular ethernet card supported a perfect hash filter. Then
it would be possible to add the support to DECnet for this. Its quite
a lot of work and its not very high on my TODO list,

Steve.

> 
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
> 
> > before 2.4.xx comes out.
> > 
> > Probably you need to make sure that the MAC address of your card
> > is set manually before the interface is used for the first time.
> > That is what usually causes the problems, because thats not actually
> > required in the case that you have a network card (like tulip) with the
> > older kernel patches which has a perfect hash filter.
> 
>  Is there a way not to change MAC in 2.3.xx if I have tulip card?
>  Mine works only if I change MAC before start decnet. I run 2.3.99pre5.
> 
>          Konstantin.
> 

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