Bug 35967

Summary:	MAC address all zeros
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	LArry Dillon <ldillon>
Component:	basesystem	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description LArry Dillon 2001-04-15 18:05:06 UTC

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My MAC address is all zeros as reported by ifconfig. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1./sbin/ifconfig
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Actual Results:  00:00:00:00:00:00

Expected Results:  Globally unique MAC address

 It basically works anyway (00:00:00:00:00:00 is unique!)  I've tried two
ethernet cards, DE450 and DE500.  I think both use tulip driver.  I've
ping'd it from multiple other machines (Redhat 6.2 and M$) arp -a shows all
zero mac address.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-15 20:03:17 UTC

This is fixed in a later kernel.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-15 20:03:51 UTC

(You can get one from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rawhide/)