Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Kalin <konstantin.kalin@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC
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> See the below for another report of this:
> 
> http://marc.info/?t=119215716900001&r=1&w=2
> 
> And apparently some motherboard vendors have their own allocations for ethernet
> addresses?

We can teach it two ranges. I doubt anyone will be unlucky enough to have
the one which could be either Nvidia or Gigabyte and have it matter.

The "go complain to the BIOS vendor" comment from Nvidia to me isn't an
answer. Maybe Nvidia can complain to BIOS vendors but end user complaints
of that form rarely have any effect.

Alan
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