In <[log in to unmask]>, Denys Beauchemin
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Gentle HP 3000 listers,
>
>On my network I have an HP 3000, an HP 9000, a Windows NT server and several
>Windows 95 PCs. I am using DHCP to assign IP addresses dynamicaly. Since
>the HP 3000 and HP 9000 do not support DHCP, I thought I would reserve
>addresses for them in DHCP. I also use WINS to resolve IP addresses/names,
>another reason to use DHCP. This way I can get rid of HOSTS files.
>
>In DHCP, it asks for the MAC address corresponding to the IP address of the
>target node. I looked in NMMGR on the 3000 and found that the address was
>set to ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff.ff This is obviously a default address, but when
>I fed it to DHCP, the latter did not find it on the network and rejected it.
> This was a little surprising, but not much.
>
>My question is a multiple one.
>
>1- If I change the MAC address in NMMGR to another number, will this solve my
>problem?
>2- If 1 above is yes, how do I do this on the HP 9000 (ooops, wrong list :->)
>?
>3- If 1 above is no, how would I go about resolving this issue on the 3000,
>the 9000 still remains a problem.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Denys. . .
If you us the command LINKCONTROL @,ALL you will get the actual MAC
addresss for the 3000. The NMMGR address is used to replace the actual
hardware MAC address
:LINKCONTROL @,ALL
Linkname: DTSLINK Linktype: IEEE8023 Linkstate: CONNECTED
Physical Path: 56
Current Station Address: 08-00-09-22-C6-83
Default Station Address: 08-00-09-22-C6-83
Current Receive Filter: broad(1) any(0) k_pckts(1) x_pckts(0)
Current Multicast Addresses:
09-00-09-00-00-01 09-00-09-00-00-03 09-00-09-00-00-04
09-00-09-00-00-06
Transmits no error 9612295 Receives no error 5692538
Transmit byte count 3860519 Receive byte count 2369376127
Transmits error 0 Receives error 0
Transmits deferred 45400 Carrier losses 0
Transmits 1 retry 38745 CRC errors 0
Transmits >1 retry 25380 Frame losses 0
Trans 16 collisions 0 Whole byte errors 0
Trans late collision 0 Size range errors 0
802 chip restarts 0 Receives dropped 0
Heartbeat losses 0 Receives broadcast 599
Receives multicast 3365
Bill Grefe ([log in to unmask])
PCI Ozone & Control Systems, Inc.
phone 201-575-7052 fax 201-575-8941
See us at www.pci-ozone.com
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