Doug--FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a reserved MAC address that
is used for interfaces that are bridging. I often see
this on machines that are running the xen kernel with other
interfaces than RealTek. I am not
sure why you would see it in a non-xen kernel though.
Steve Timm
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Doug Benjamin wrote:
Hello,
I have just recently installed SL 5.3 x86_64 and am having trouble with the
r8169 network driver.
The card reports that its MAC address is FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. The card seems
to work but obviously
this MAC address is bogus. I have tried rebuilding the driver from Realtek
without success
It appears that Red Hat has fixed the problem. Any idea when it will make it
into SL5.3?
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html
Bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452761
Thanks,
Doug Benjamin
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