Re: 2.1.21 bugs..

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
20 Jan 1997 07:39:12 GMT


Followup to: <m0vlO7M-0005FHC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Again valid.
>
> > GASD2 4 00000105 4 00:00:05:55,00:00:00:00:00:01,04;51
> > ^This looks WRONG! ^Thats not like any
> > server address I know.
>

Believe it or not, I once found a PCMCIA Ethernet card which seems to
pick an Ethernet address by probing the net or similar; it would
usually pick 00:00:00:00:00:00 or 00:00:00:00:00:01 or something
equivalent... needless to say, I banned the bloody thing from my net
immediately...

-hpa

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