[nsp] 7206vxr assigns 0000.0000.0000 to IO-FE-TX

Pekka Savola pekkas@netcore.fi
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:21:31 +0300 (EEST)


On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Suresh Rajagopalan wrote:
> 7206VXR with IO-FE-TX & 1 PA-H card and 2 extra FE cards.
> 
> The machine is running 12.1.16.
> 
> On bootup, the machine assigns a random MAC address of 0000.0000.0000
> to the FA0/0 interface. This seems wrong (besides causing problems in
> pinging some other devices).  Any help is appreciated.  The output is
> shown below.

This is a bit long shot, but you could try to specify the MAC address by 
hand with 'mac-address' command under the interface.
 
> Thanks
> Suresh
> 
> --------------------------------
> 7206vxr#show int
> FastEthernet0/0 is administratively down, line protocol is down
>   Hardware is DEC21140, address is 0000.0000.0000 (bia 0000.0000.0000)
>   MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
>      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
>   Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
>   Keepalive set (10 sec)
>   Half-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
>   ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
>   Last input never, output 00:22:40, output hang never
>   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
>   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
> 0
>   Queueing strategy: fifo
>   Output queue :0/40 (size/max)
>   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>      0 packets input, 0 bytes
>      Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
>      0 watchdog
>      0 input packets with dribble condition detected
>      0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
>      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
>      0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
>      0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
>      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> FastEthernet2/0 is up, line protocol is up
>   Hardware is DEC21140A, address is 0000.0000.0038 (bia
> 0000.0000.0038)
>   Internet address is 63.71.211.34/25
>   MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
>      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
>   Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
>   Keepalive set (10 sec)
>   Half-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
>   ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
>   Last input 00:00:14, output 00:00:01, output hang never
>   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
>   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
> 0
>   Queueing strategy: fifo
>   Output queue :0/40 (size/max)
>   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>      368 packets input, 27027 bytes
>      Received 249 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
>      0 watchdog
>      0 input packets with dribble condition detected
>      253 packets output, 34433 bytes, 0 underruns
>      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
>      0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
>      0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
>      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> Hssi3/0 is administratively down, line protocol is down
>   Hardware is M1T-HSSI-B
>   MTU 4470 bytes, BW 45045 Kbit, DLY 200 usec,
>      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
>   Encapsulation HDLC, crc 16, loopback not set
>   Keepalive set (10 sec)
>   Restart-Delay is 0 secs
>   Last input never, output never, output hang never
>   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
>   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
> 0
>   Queueing strategy: fifo
>   Output queue :0/40 (size/max)
>   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>      0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
>      Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>               0 parity
>      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
>      0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
>      0 output errors, 0 applique, 0 interface resets
>      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
>      1 carrier transitions     LC=down  CA=down  TM=down LB=down
> TA=down LA=down
> 
> 
> FastEthernet4/0 is administratively down, line protocol is down
>   Hardware is DEC21140A, address is 0000.0000.0070 (bia
> 0000.0000.0070)
>   MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec,
>      reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
>   Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
>   Keepalive set (10 sec)
>   Half-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX
>   ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
>   Last input never, output 00:22:58, output hang never
>   Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
>   Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops:
> 0
>   Queueing strategy: fifo
>   Output queue :0/40 (size/max)
>   5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>   5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
>      0 packets input, 0 bytes
>      Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
>      0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
>      0 watchdog
>      0 input packets with dribble condition detected
>      0 packets output, 0 bytes, 0 underruns
>      0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
>      0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
>      0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
>      0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> 
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