Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs they can check against this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
[root@jhereg ~]# ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:09:73:C0 inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::202:e3ff:fe09:73c0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1806 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:172615 (168.5 KiB) TX bytes:1524197 (1.4 MiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000
From LSPCI:
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Netgear FA310TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at b000 [size=256] Memory at d7801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
lsmod reports the tulip driver present.
I am putting this on the list so that anyone else who uses this (or a similar) card won't be caught and surprised as I was.
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:19 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs they can check against this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
Per http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml:
Here are the results of your search through the public section of the IEEE Standards OUI database report for 00-02-E3:
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00-02-E3 (hex) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 0002E3 (base 16) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 736 S. Hillview Drive Milpitas CA 95035 UNITED STATES
The byte swapped address does not find any matches. It's not Netgear but who can tell anymore.
Bob...
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bob Chiodini wrote:
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:19 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs they can check against this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
Per http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml:
Here are the results of your search through the public section of the IEEE Standards OUI database report for 00-02-E3:
00-02-E3 (hex) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 0002E3 (base 16) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 736 S. Hillview Drive Milpitas CA 95035 UNITED STATES
The byte swapped address does not find any matches. It's not Netgear but who can tell anymore.
My Netgear cards (00-A0-CC) also show up as Lite-On in lspci and at the above Website.
Charles Curley wrote:
Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
I have 2 of these cards -- I've never actually bothered to verify the MAC addresses reported for them, and both are installed on now dead Pentium II/Pentium III machines. But I'm wondering if some other process might have been spoofing the MAC address?
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bob Chiodini wrote:
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 16:19 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
Does anyone have a list of Ethernet vendor IDs they can check against this MAC address? That should tell for sure which is correct.
Per http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml:
Here are the results of your search through the public section of the IEEE Standards OUI database report for 00-02-E3:
00-02-E3 (hex) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 0002E3 (base 16) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 736 S. Hillview Drive Milpitas CA 95035 UNITED STATES
The byte swapped address does not find any matches. It's not Netgear but who can tell anymore.
My Netgear cards (00-A0-CC) also show up as Lite-On in lspci and at the above Website.
And so did both of mine.
Bob
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 21:09 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Charles Curley wrote:
Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards.
What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is 02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box from FC2 to FC3.
The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years.
I have 2 of these cards -- I've never actually bothered to verify the MAC addresses reported for them, and both are installed on now dead Pentium II/Pentium III machines. But I'm wondering if some other process might have been spoofing the MAC address?
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
All,
It's possible that Netgear uses Lite-On's network interface chips, or vice versa.
Bob...
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 19:43 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Bob Chiodini wrote:
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00-02-E3 (hex) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 0002E3 (base 16) LITE-ON Communications, Inc. 736 S. Hillview Drive Milpitas CA 95035 UNITED STATES
The byte swapped address does not find any matches. It's not Netgear but who can tell anymore.
My Netgear cards (00-A0-CC) also show up as Lite-On in lspci and at the above Website.
I have a couple older ones and lspci shows the following:
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22) The vendor is 00-40-05 showa up on the IEEE website ... 00-40-05 (hex) ANI COMMUNICATIONS INC. 004005 (base 16) ANI COMMUNICATIONS INC. 8 ANZIO IRVINE CA 92714
The chip has Digital on it
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