RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

[Greg Scott]

I think the NICs on all the systems are 3c905b's.  The system with the
2.4 kernel on it has them and I think that is what I put in my 2.6-11
test system as well.  My 2.6 system doesn't have a modules.conf file so
I will need to dig a little deeper.  I suppose I could just open it up
and look.  But I am almost sure I put 3c905b cards in both test systems.

- Greg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:14 PM
To: Greg Scott
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bart Samwel
Subject: RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

On Sul, 2006-03-12 at 09:34 -0600, Greg Scott wrote:
> Bart and I had a private discussion about this.  I was able to prove 
> that routing stops when "fudged" MAC Addresses on the router don't 
> match the hardware MAC Addresses.  And routing starts back up again 
> when the I change the "fudged" MAC Addresses back to match the 
> hardware MAC Addresses.

Which driver, and does it occur with other drivers. Also you really want
to move this to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx to get the best network folks to see
it.

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