Re: nfe/PXE problem

From: Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:28:38 -0700
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:02:43 am Danny Braniss wrote:
>> the question now, is to see if the nfe driver can check if it was
>> used by the PXE, and flip the address. or have NVIDIA comeup with
>> a patch ...
> 
> It could use a hueristic based on the vendor-portion of the MAC address to see 
> if it is flipped.  It is probably a bug in the PXE rom when it shuts down the 
> card.
> 

Presumably the mac address is from an nvida-assigned block so just check
the vendor nibbles...

	Sam
Received on Mon Mar 26 2007 - 19:28:40 UTC

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