Subject: Re: NVRAM lost on pizzabox clone
To: Reinhold Huber <rhuber@fs.tum.de>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/29/2000 11:05:51
> Solaris apparently sets the MAC address to zero, and can communicate within
> the LAN, but NetBSD leaves the MAC address at ff:...:ff. Is this a reason
> for other machines not to answer to pings?
Yes. The all-ones MAC address is the broadcast address. Correctly
functioning hosts will be highly suspicious of inbound packets from
the broadcast address.
- Bill