At 4:11 PM +0200 6/1/01, fender@earthling.net wrote:

:)when the kernel boots it enumerates all devices.
:)it finds le0 . sbus so-and-so more blah address: <addr1>
:)it finds le1 . sbus so-and-so more blah address: <addr2>
:)
:)now addr1 and addr2 are indentical! i thought that these addresses were
:)the MAC addressess. which i must be unique by definition.
:)so how come they're the same?

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/faq.html#ether-address

:)ps: somebody mentioned something about the SS1 being power hungry.
:)any ideas on this ?

Sure, it draws a lot more power than my SparcBook 3GX, but less than my
hp433s.  It's all relative.

  -- MW