On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 21:09 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > >Old drivers for this device were showing each pair of bytes swapped in > >the MAC address of one of my Ethernet cards. > > > >What I see now is 00:02:E3:09:73:C0. What I used to see is > >02:00:09:E3:C0:73. The difference came today, when I upgraded the box > >from FC2 to FC3. > > > >The "new" MAC address is consistent with a sticker on the card, so I > >guess it is the correct one. Also, it agrees with what Windows 9x > >reported when I used this card in a W9x box. Apparently FC3 has > >cleared up a bug that the driver has had for several years. > > > > > > > I have 2 of these cards -- I've never actually bothered to verify the > MAC addresses reported for them, and both are installed on now dead > Pentium II/Pentium III machines. But I'm wondering if some other process > might have been spoofing the MAC address? > > Bob Cochran > Greenbelt, Maryland, USA > > All, It's possible that Netgear uses Lite-On's network interface chips, or vice versa. Bob...
