Subject: Re: Sun 3/80
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@simon.sfsu.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/18/2000 09:53:59
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-1] P=E5llen wrote:

> [ Machine thinks its MAC address is 0:0:0:0:0:0 ]
>
> Well, I put that up in /etc/ethers on my server and gave it an IP number.

/etc/ethers is only used by the rarpd daemon.  It doesn't tell your
machine what its MAC address is.  That information comes from the NVRAM.

-J