Is it some sort of arp to check and see if anyone else is using the IP? who's IP is it using when it makes these broadcasts? ""A Mehr"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Sorry to be off topic . > > I was just installing an old realtech 8019 on my home client machine . > Everything was all right , but It couldn't ping my other computer . > When I ran a protocol analyzer , it showed the the realtech was doing arp > and was sending ICMP echo messages but it set it's own mac address to > ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff which is the broadcast address . ipconfig /all is telling > me the same thing . anyone has got a clue to when an NIC assumes the > broadcast address as its mac address ?
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