From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, abraham@2d3d.co.za
Subject: Re: ethtool documentation
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 15:40:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D502611.26B28B8E@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.3.95.1020806151104.25149A-100000@chaos.analogic.com
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> Because of this, there is no such thing as 'unused eeprom space' in
> the Ethernet Controllers. Be careful about putting this weapon in
> the hands of the 'public'. All you need is for one Linux Machine
> on a LAN to end up with the same IEEE Station Address as another
> on that LAN and connectivity to everything on that segment will
> stop. You do this once at an important site and Linux will get a
> very black eye.
Can't we already tell cards (some of them anyway) what MAC address to use when
sending packets? This doesn't overwrite the EEPROM, but it does last for that
session...
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-06 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 15:41 ethtool documentation Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 19:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 19:40 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2002-08-06 19:44 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 20:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:36 ` Ben Greear
2002-08-06 21:15 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-07 1:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 3:33 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-06 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-06 20:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 19:00 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-08-07 1:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 2:54 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-07 5:32 ` Dax Kelson
2002-08-07 6:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 1:07 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-07 11:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 12:05 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-07 18:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-08-07 20:16 ` erik
2002-08-07 8:02 ` Abraham vd Merwe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-08 9:18 Helge Hafting
2002-08-07 18:16 Leif Sawyer
2002-08-06 20:57 Leif Sawyer
2002-08-07 1:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 10:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-05 11:46 Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-05 15:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:06 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-05 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-05 20:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-06 10:17 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-06 10:07 ` David S. Miller
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