One thing about arcnet (about the only one I know): The hardware address
is set by dip switches on the board... and is only 8-bit (gotta be
unique among the physical bus). This means 40 bits have to be made up in
order to have a 48-bit MAC address. Maybe a LILO line could take care of
this.
Anyone into the gory details? Maybe there's a ARCnet-HOWTO or something.
kroh wrote:
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm going to hide a non-linux-specific arcnet question inside of a
> possibly linux-specific arcnet question. Hope no one minds. :)
snip
> arc0 Link encap:UNSPECHWaddrFE-00-00-00-00-00-00-F9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> -00
> unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]
> BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:30
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2e0 Memory:d0000-d07ff
>
> Now, the thing that bugs me is the first line - "Link encap:UNSPEC"
> The thing that also sort of bugs me is the HWaddr line, and why? Because
> when I take the same card and plunk it in another machine, same thing,
> except that now...
>
> arc0 Link encap:ARCNet HWaddr FD
> unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]
> BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:30
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x2e0 Memory:d0000-d07ff
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