Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:57:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: ethtool documentation |
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On 6 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 21:03, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Sure you can. And it was assumed that the MAC address provided by > > the manufacturer would always be used by the software for the MAC > > address on the wire. However, 'software engineers' have decided > > Umm no > > DECnet used dynamically assigned MAC addresses from the beginning and > Digital (now Compaq (now HP)) were one of the creators of the original > DIX ethernet standard > > Thats why several boards allow you to have a pair of receiving MAC > addresses. >
That's not the MAC address. That's the multicast hash. They are different. The MAC address says who you are. The multicast hash says who you can receive (in addition to your MAC and the all 1's broadcast). Of course there's also 'promisc' which turns off receive filtering all together.
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