Re: Eth%d keeps incrementing everytime the system boots.

2007-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:44:13AM +0530, Vikram Vincent wrote: Yes. I think I had something like 80+ MAC addresses. Do you want me to reproduce the bug and double check ? Sure sounds odd. After all the MAC address is supposed to be fixed. Do you have a list of the addresses it has used?

Re: Eth%d keeps incrementing everytime the system boots.

2007-11-21 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:43:32AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: MAC addresses are supposed to be unique and fixed on an ethernet port. Random MAC addresses are a very bad sign (of either a driver bug or a hardware problem). Len, Silly me, but I thought that MAC addresses were actuall

Eth%d keeps incrementing everytime the system boots.

2007-11-20 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hello, I have a AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual-core laptop, Nvidia GeForce 7000M and Nforce-MCP67 and running Debian Lenny x86_64. I had been facing the issue documented here http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14331highlight=forcedeth but the solutions did not work and on last count Eth showed

Re: Eth%d keeps incrementing everytime the system boots.

2007-11-20 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:42:37PM +0530, Vikram Vincent wrote: I have a AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual-core laptop, Nvidia GeForce 7000M and Nforce-MCP67 and running Debian Lenny x86_64. I had been facing the issue documented here http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14331highlight=forcedeth

Re: Eth%d keeps incrementing everytime the system boots.

2007-11-20 Thread Vikram Vincent
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Does the MAC address change every boot Yes. I think I had something like 80+ MAC addresses. Do you want me to reproduce the bug and double check ? Regards Vikram Vincent