On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 03:32:23 +0000 (GMT) Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > Do you know what problems are likely to occur<snip>? > > > > The first bit is used to distinguish individual addresses from group > <snip> > > Thanks for this information. We have now registered a vendor ID, so > we have a gazillion MAC addresses to use, however, before we did that > we used one that was questionable. It did not begin with 00 00, and > the side effect was that our multifunction > printer/scanner/photocopier/fax changed its IP address to match the > development board. Every time we changed the IP address of the > development board the printer would follow it... Really interesting :), so the multifunction machine took the frame as an IP configuration request and dived into the frame for the source IP addr... I do not know how you selected the bogus MAC addr but I think it's unlikely that you picked the only one that matched the multifunction machine, more likely the machine has a nasty firmware :) -- Delio Brignoli I'm looking for a job (sw engineer/developer) in New Zealand, pls take a look at my profile: http://www.drlinux.it/profile.html
