Bug 35967 – MAC address all zeros

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Bug 35967 - MAC address all zeros

Summary:	MAC address all zeros

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	basesystem (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2001-04-15 14:05 EDT by LArry Dillon
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:20 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-04-15 14:05:10 EDT
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Description LArry Dillon 2001-04-15 14:05:06 EDT

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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 16:03:17 EDT

This is fixed in a later kernel.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-04-15 16:03:51 EDT

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

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