[Debian] Ethernet MACaddress constantly changing

[Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com>]

Hi,

I have a portable with a 3Com 3CCE589ET CPCMCIA network
adapter. I'm also running arpwatch on my network to check for
"ellegal aliens".  I noticed that everytime a reboot my portable
from linux to windows or the other way around I get a message
from arpwatch that the Ethernet address of my portable changed.
Shouldn't the ethernet address be network-card-specific. Is either
Linux or Windows98 changing my Ethernet address and ifso why?

Thanks in advance,

Nico

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