Hi all.

I'm saying it depends on the card.  But if the card is supported under OpenVMS, there has to be some way to change the MAC address - or perhaps it would be more correct to say there has to be a way to set an *additional* MAC address - the original MAC address from the chip isn't changed.






At Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:15:34 -0400, you wrote:
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>	So your saying that der Mouse might be able to change the MAC for
>the de0, but he's S.O.L. on the 3Com card, right?
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>> From: 	Lets Go Canes!
>> Sent: 	Thursday, June 15, 2000 2:04 PM
>> To: 	David Woyciesjes; port-alpha@netbsd.org; 'der Mouse'
>> Subject: 	Re:RE: Changing MAC addresses?
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>> Hi all.
>> 
>> On boxes running OpenVMS, the Ethernet interface has to allow the MAC
>> address to be changed in order to support DECnet.  Since most DEC/Compaq
>> Alphas are capable of running OpenVMS, it would make sense that the
>> Ethernet controllers all support the ability to change the MAC address.
>> OTOH, if the box was built specifically for NT, its conceivable it may
>> have an Ethernet interface that doesn't support this function.
>> 
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