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From: "Sergey A. Kobzar" <sergey.kobzar@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] MAC addresses
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:48:08
Message-Id: 1244059103.20090430224806@mail.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MAC addresses by Daniel Troeder
1 Thursday, April 30, 2009, 10:34:28 PM, Daniel wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 18:09 +0300, Sergey A. Kobzar wrote:
4 >> Hello.
5 >>
6 >> I have Gentoo server Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 x86_64 connected to
7 >> LinkSys switch. It has 2 NICs onboard:
8 >>
9 >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c
10 >> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d
11 >>
12 >> 2nd NIC is connected to LinkSys switch, but the switch shows that
13 >> device connected to the port has other MAC address:
14 >>
15 >> VLAN ID VLAN 3
16 >> MAC 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f
17 >> Port g31
18 >>
19 >> The difference in last symbol.
20 >>
21 >> How is it possible?
22
23 > I suggest, to first check which device/OS is telling the truth. Use
24 > wireshark to capture and review some traffic. Maybe this helps analyse
25 > the situation.
26
27
28 I've started this thread because connection to the server is unstable
29 and I see such reports from other servers:
30
31 +arp: 10.11.1.203 moved from 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f to 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d on em1
32 +arp: 10.11.1.203 moved from 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d to 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f on em1
33 +arp: 10.11.1.203 moved from 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f to 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d on em1
34 +arp: 10.11.1.203 moved from 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d to 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f on em1
35 +arp: 10.11.1.203 moved from 00:15:17:1a:6e:6f to 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d on em1
36
37 BIOS tells that NIC1 has 00:15:17:1a:6e:6c MAC and NIC2 has
38 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d. It's strange that 00:15:17:1a:6e:6d MAC is common
39 for both NICs.
40
41
42 > Bye,
43 > Daniel
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48 --
49 Sergey

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