Also I am getting the same messed up routing table on
an old 486 with 3c509b ISA NIC, so it is not a PCMCIA
thing.

Other applications such as Ethereal pic up the source
MAC address of incoming packets fine, it is just ESIS
that is messing up.

Philip

 --- Philip Christian
<philipchristian2003@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > 
> I have two laptops, a compaq armada m700 with built
> in Intel NIC and a Dell CPXj with PCMCIA Ethernet
> cards.
> 
> Both are running same 1.6 kernel
> 
> When I do "route -n show" on the Compaq the OSI
> routing table is fine
> 
> When I do the same on the Dell the MAC address for
> the IP routing table is right, but is messed up for
> the received OSI address.  The MAC address of the
> Dell itself is right.
> 
> The messed up MAC address has the 1st, 2nd and last
> bytes correct, but the 3rd, 4th and fifth are
> garbage.
> 
> The same thing happens whether I use D-link DE-650
> (comes up as ne2) or Xircom Creditcard Ethernet
> 10/100+ Modem 56 cem56-100 (comes up as xi0)
> 
> I used Ethereal on a third PC to look at the ESIS
> packets going to the Dell, and they look right, so
> it must be the processing of incoming ESIS PDUs that
> is messed up on the Dell but not on the Compaq.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
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