On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:21AM +0800, Rodel Miguel wrote: > The board we're configuring is a generic x86 board. RedHat is the > distro we're using on this board. I'm sure the correct ethernet adapter > is probed (I can ping on other hosts). Everything works perfectly well > except the network services, because of this BROADCAST MAC ADDRESS. Are > there ways to get this working with a special MAC address at hand?
You cannot. Any non-broadcast ARP requests will immediately fail to resolve your IP, so no other type of network communication will be possible. > We're asking the manufacturer of the board if we could change the MAC > address of this board (they have not provided it yet). We've tried This is your best route. I think there needs to be some special programming you need to do for the Ethernet to make it happen. The last embedded evaluation board I used was of this type, and allowed you to change the MAC address at will (but it did come with sensible factory-supplied default values). Read any and all documentation on the ethernet subsystem you can find. Something must be there. > updating the ARP table of the board and the hosts that would access the > board to accomodate FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF MAC address, but the board seems > not to respond to requests or replies of the hosts (we checked the > packets using ethereal and tcpdump). :(. We've checked the telnet and Because it doesn't have a valid MAC address. > ftp packages if its installed, and we're perfectly sure it's installed. Uninstall these packages NOW. And FAST. And install OpenSSH instead. Telnet and FTP are among the most dangerous and worthless protocols on the planet as of now. Don't even think about using them in the future. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
