[SunHELP] WARNING: IP: Hardware address ...

[Michael Karl]

Hi,

in my Home-Office with an UE5/10 and a SS20 (both Solaris 8 with latest
Recommended Patch-Cluster) I got following WARNING-errors.

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* /var/adm/messages # UE5/10 with Gigabit-EtherNet-Network-Adapter

Jul  7 07:25:33 UE10 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware
address '00:a0:d2:39:8a:08' trying to be our address 192.168.111.001!

* ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
atnic0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 192.168.111.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
        ether 0:a0:d2:39:8a:8 <<<<<<<< !?!?!?!?!?!?!?
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
        inet 192.168.122.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.122.255
        ether 8:0:20:b5:4a:24

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* /var/adm/messages # SS20 with FastEtherNet-Network-Adapter

Jul  6 18:14:02 ss20 ip: [ID 903730 kern.warning] WARNING: IP: Hardware
address '08:00:20:80:87:7a' trying to be our address 192.168.111.002!

* ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 192.168.111.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
        ether 8:0:20:80:87:7a <<<<<<<< !?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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The "Hardware address" in the "WARNING" is there own address !

What's going wrong ?

Michael