From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:42:52 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] MAC address question... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:26:53 PDT." <6.1.1.1.0.20040826130504.01de0b38@wheresmymailserver.com> Message-ID: <20040826214257.56D93C109F@atlas.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de In message <6.1.1.1.0.20040826130504.01de0b38@wheresmymailserver.com> you wrote: > > The MAC addresses that I ship are valid MAC addresses - it was that their > DHCP server, only gave IP addresses to "valid" machines on their network > (valid = machines that the net admin knew about and wanted on the network). > Since they were hacking on this they did the best thing they could - they > unplugged the Windows machine, and stole it's MAC address, so their DHCP > server would give them an IP number that their routers liked. Well, such behaviour makes no sense and should not be fixed in software. > OK - I guess that is what I was looking for. If I made a smc91111_eeprom.c, > would you accept that back into the examples, and if someone wanted to > change it, they could do it from there? Sure. > My five favorite words "architect, design, implement, test, ship". :-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice." - Robert Green Ingersoll