Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 15 August 2007, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> >> Everyone believed that except DECnet which expected all cards in the >> same machine to have the same MAC. The address should be stored in a >> ROM and initialized at startup, so it is probably a firmware or driver >> bug. > > Les: On multiport cards, do the NICs all have different MAC addresses > and do they all use the same driver? The OP has a board where the 2 NICs > use different drivers. Seems like DECnet did not have a better idea > there. All NICs everywhere are supposed to have different MAC addresses. And I've never seen different ones on the same board need different drivers before except for fancy servers that have a built-in management interface that might be a 10/100 NIC while the main ones are 10/100/1000. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com