> On 20010813.0946, Jacob Meuser said ...
>
> I think it has to do with certain cards.  I have used a few different
> revisions of those LinkSys 10/100 cards.  The older ones, the Lite-On
> PNIC "tulip" versions, are much better then the newer ADMTek "tulip"
> versions.  There's something seriously wrong with the new ones.  They 
> report a MAC address of 00:00:00:04:00:00 on OpenBSD.  Needless to say,
> if you have two of these cards on the same network, they don't play
> nice.  Could be that OpenBSD''s driver isn't all that great, but, I 
> kind of doubt that's the root of the problem.

I got one of the ADMTek ones.  Here's my dmesg report on bootup:

eth0: ADMtek Centaur-P rev 17 at 0x1000, 00:04:5A:54:E1:3C, IRQ 11.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1.
tulip.c:v0.92w 7/9/2001  Written by Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.

That MAC address look okay?  It seems to work fine so far.  If it ends
up _really_ sucking, then I'm only down $10.  :)

-Rob

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