i386/155142: vr0 without mac address

Neerlan Amorim neerlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 03:20:07 UTC 2011


>Number:         155142
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       vr0 without mac address
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 01 03:20:07 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Neerlan Amorim
>Release:        8.2 i386
>Organization:
RoraimaNET
>Environment:
FreeBSD gateway.motoka 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sat Feb 26 00:13:32 AMT 2011     root at gateway.motoka:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIETRA  i386
>Description:
After install the new FreeBSD 8.2 the network card don't show mac address in ifconfig command.
vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=82808<VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
>How-To-Repeat:
Just install FreeBSD 8.2 in a computer with network card vr0 (VIA network card).
>Fix:
I solved the problem by adding the commands in /etc/rc.local:
ifconfig vr0 ether 00:14:2a:d4:93:dc

I do not know how to solve otherwise

>Release-Note:
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