No, a cable modem of mine seems to be remembering MAC address's or something
odd.
Switching machines works when you leave the modem off for a while, but not
if you switch it off for only a minute or so.
Its for an Axil 320 (a sun clone).

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Laight" <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: "Chuck Yerkes" <chuck+nbsd@snew.com>
Cc: "Nathan de Klepper" <nathandeklepper@optushome.com.au>;
<netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: manually setting MAC address


> >
> > What is it you are after?  Why would you need to change MAC addresses?
> > (the ONLY time I've ever needed it was with an HA/Failover situation).
>
> In order to run decnet???
> Requires locally administered addresses.  IIRC top 14 bits (after
> multicast/unicast and locally/globally administerd) are the network
> and bottom 32 the machine number.
>
> David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk