On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Joe Hodge wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Mailing List Recpient wrote:
> > > an ifconfig le1 up leaves the following in the dmesg buffer;
> > > 
> > > le0 at ledma0 slot 4 offset 0x8c00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:04:ae:ce
> > > le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> > > le1 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0xc00000 level 7: address 08:00:20:04:ae:ce
> > > le1: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> > 
> > I could be very wrong but shouldn't the actual MAC addresses for the 2
> > cards be different?  Isn't that the first place to start.
> 
> Actually. no.  On the Sparc systems (at least on the 4m architecture, I
> don't own any others) there is one MAC address per system shared by all of
> the interfaces.  The idea is that each interface connect to different
> network, so sharing a MAC address is no problem.  I believe that the MAC
> address is actually sotred in the system PROM and not on the card at all.

Yeah, there is a flag "local-ethers" or "local-mac" or somesuch
(forgot) which is settable via the PROM.  IIRC, this is how you give each
interface unique MACs under Solaris...  I don't know how/if this affects
NetBSD...

-Jon Lindgren
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