On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'm in big trouble with my network config. > The netadmin at my workplace just said me that it's few days that my PC > connects to the network changing MAC address (it changes the MAC addres > from the real one to 00:00:00:00:00:00) and then switches back after > some minutes. The same thing happened six months ago but since then I > never had any complaint from the netadmin until today.
Looks most likely like a problem with the ethernet card, especially with the way the hardware address zeroes out. If you wanted to watch it for a while, I'd use cron to regularly log (every minute) the output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1' -- Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard Caution: product may be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
