nfe/PXE problem
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Mon Mar 26 21:28:40 UTC 2007
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:02:43 am Danny Braniss wrote:
>> the question now, is to see if the nfe driver can check if it was
>> used by the PXE, and flip the address. or have NVIDIA comeup with
>> a patch ...
>
> It could use a hueristic based on the vendor-portion of the MAC address to see
> if it is flipped. It is probably a bug in the PXE rom when it shuts down the
> card.
>
Presumably the mac address is from an nvida-assigned block so just check
the vendor nibbles...
Sam
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