Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:44:50 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: forcedeth net driver: reverse mac address after pxe boot |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:19:20PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> The obvious fix for this is to try and read the MAC address from the > canonical location... ie where is the source of the address writen > into the controlers registers at power on? But do we know where that > may be?
This seems like The Right Thing (TM) to me, but we need someone from NVidia(?) to provide that information. Ayaz?
> The other solution would be unconditionally reset the controler to > it's power on state then use the current logic? can we reset the > controller via software?
This seems like a plausible alternative.
The MAC address validation schemes suggested by others would probably "work", but they would be a bit fragile. For example, every new vendor of forcedeth hardware would have a new OUI to be added to the list.
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