On Tue, Apr 08, 1997 at 09:40:29PM +0100, Graham, James wrote:
> Since you're presumably on different networks, there is no reason
> to do otherwise.  It saves having to have an address ROM on
> each port of an interface.  If you have a quad card, what, are
> you going to put a ROM on each IF?
> 
> Silly, if you ask me.

They usually use EEPROM chips to store the addresses nowadays.  These
chips have at least 256 bits of storage.  256 bits is 32 bytes which can
hold 5 Ethernet hardware addresses.  And you can't buy smaller EEPROMs.

Besides, you only have to store one address and create the rest by adding
1, 2, or 3 to the base address.

  -jm


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