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Re: A clue....


> >This just shows that eCos knows the MAC address. Does the card know
> >the MAC address? Sometimes you need to write the MAC address into a
> >register before it will receive any packets addressed to it.
> >
> > 
> >
> Well TCP dump sees the source address there as well so it went out on 
> the wire with the correct MAC address. Does that count?

No. eCos has built the packet to be sent including the source
address. The chip has just sent a collection of bytes, it was not
responsible for putting the MAC address into the packet. So what you
see on the wire tells you nothing about what the chip thinks its
address is.

        Andrew

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