some nic cards facilitate the changing of mac addresses, maybe this is the
case and the nic driver is "faulty" ??
On 1/25/06, Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote:
david rankin wrote:
The problem seems to be in /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules. The question [bug] is how in the heck duplicate entries got created in the first place.
Yep, I would report that to Novell - bugzilla.novell.com. Especially given that some apparently bogus MAC-address is found and entered.
I did some more googling, and I'm beginning to think 00:4c:69:6e:75:79 is somehow a default MAC-address created/assigned by the tulip driver when it cannot find a MAC-address on the device itself.
Yep, I've just now had a look at the tulip driver - the 00:4c:69:6e:75:79 is exactly that, a fake MAC-address:
tulip_core.c:
char last_phys_addr[6] = {0x00, 'L', 'i', 'n', 'u', 'x'};
When no EEPROM is found, the MAC-address is setup as the above. ('L'=0x4C, 'i'=0x69, 'n'=0x6e, ... etc).
I could suspect this whole thing to be caused by a faulty NIC that sometimes reports a MAC-address, and sometimes doesn't. At install-time, it didn't and you ended up with 00:4c:69:6e:75:79 = "Linux". Sometime later the NIC did come up with a MAC-address, and YaST can't help but conclude you've got two NICs.
/Per Jessen, Zürich (-5.32 °C)
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