> One thing you might check before and after the problem occurs is the
> MAC address for "both" portmasters using 'show ether0', or, look at
> the arp cache on your routers/unix systems that are on the same
> ethernet segment.
>
> If you have an early version of the internal EPROM within the
> Portmaster (earlier than version "F"), and, you upgrade the ComOS
> to 3.3.2 (or around that version), you will find the MAC address of
> the Portmaster will change itself to some character string. In my
> case the character string was "<cr><lf>WARN", and you see that being
Yupp. This looks like the problem. A reboot of the portmaster and the
MAC shows up as 00:80:ad:05:7c:a5 but after a few minutes/hours/days it
sets itself to 0D:0A:57:41:52:4E. My Hex to ACSII is a little rusty but
that looks like what you got too. A quick check shows Boot ROM version B.
Fortunatly I have a spare PM for the moment and I will swap the boot ROMs
to fix the problem until I can get a new one from Livingston.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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