On 27-Aug-07, at 10:01 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Hmm, this is very strange. Apparently eth1394 do not have proper
> ethernet MAC addresses assigned? That specific code asks the kernel  
> for
> the MAC of the interface and the kernel returns something which
> doesn't have the length 6. But ethernet MAC addresses are supposed to
> have the length 6.
>
> Could you please paste the output of "ip link" on you machine?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lennart
>

Firewire uses 8 bytes for their MAC's:

# ip link
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast  
qlen 1000
     link/ieee1394 00:1c:b3:ff:fe:7f:85:a4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


thanks

Jeff Koftinoff
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