[openib-general] ib0 shows MAC address as 00-00-00.... is it normal??

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 06:30, Bala wrote:
> Hi All,
>        We have build and installed OFED-1.1 on
> RHEL-4 machine, using ipoib we set the IPs
> for the interface and able to ping each other,
> but my ifconfig shows ib0 MAC address as
> shown below
> "00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00"
> 
> --------------
> ib0       Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>           inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2044 
> Metric:1
>           RX packets:271465 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1444336 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:128
>           RX bytes:15664386 (14.9 MiB)  TX
> bytes:2718736764 (2.5 GiB)
> -------------------
> 
> pls let me know is it normal,

Depends on the (truncated) guid for the HCA port.

>  is there any way
> to get the real hw/mac address.

ip addr show ib0

-- Hal

> regards,
> Bala.
> 
> 
>  
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