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Different MAC address from ifconfig and syslog?!

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eepico

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Jan 6, 2002
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HK
Hi,

I'd like to know why I will get a different MAC address from ifconfig and /var/adm/syslog on a single NIC? From ifconfig it showed 00:ff:46:93:00:ff, but syslog showed another. I am sure that the MAC shown by ifconfig is wrong since I've checked IEEE site and couldn't search any company which using 00-ff-46 and on every reboot the address was different! I think the MAC shown from syslog is correct (00:c0:df, by co. KYE group) but why ifconfig uses a different one once reboot?

Should I unlink the currect NIC driver from netconfig and install a newer one?

I can't think of any reason why my OpenServer 5.0.5 will suddently freeze all telnet sessions and need to reboot except this conflicted MAC address problem...
 
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