>>>>There are two problems with these cards, which the newer driver
>>>>should deal with just fine:
>>>>1. There is only one ethernet address for all the interfaces

There is only ethernet address *ROM* for all the interfaces.

>>>The quad-port ZX346 I use doesn't seem to have this problem:
>>
>>Yes, they do: the driver automatically assignes consecutive addresses to
>>each interface, but there is only one in ROM.
>
>Doh.  You are, of course, correct.  Sorry for the confusion.
>Does Znyx actually have different addresses reserved for each
>interface, so that only the first address is *stored*, or is it
>possible to have colliding Ethernet addresses between multiple
>cards?  Matt Thomas suggested the latter, but I just wanted to
>be sure...

Only the first address is stored and all the other are derived
from it.  However, all N addresses are assigned to the board.
So there are no duplicate addresses.

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