On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:09:11AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> That's not correct. Most Sun NICs(*) have own MAC addresses especially QFEs.
> It's the operating system which chooses the MAC address for the card. Even
> Solaris will use the MAC address of the NIC if the PROM property
> "local-mac-address?" is set to "true".

Very interesting - I wasn't aware that they had MAC addresses.

> (*) The only case were I couldn't get a Sun system to use different
>     MAC address for its NICs was Enterprise 4500 which insisted to
>     use the same MAC address for all its three HME ports.

According to http://www.foundrynet.com/services/faqs/Sun.html the HME
doesn't have a hardware address.

-mj
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