Subject: Re: SparcStation ipx versus Sparc Classic
To: der Mouse <mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
From: Volker Borchert <bt@csfps.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/03/2002 08:23:15
der Mouse wrote:

|> > I have found that chosing MAC addresses of the form  x:x:x:a:x:!a (et
|> > al.) makes it easier to program the BBSRAM -- since the checksum
|> > doesn't change from one machine to the next (one less byte that has
|> > to be computed!)

|> mkpl recomputes the checksum for you...or at least it does for me.  (I
|> also think you probably mean ~a rather than !a, to be nitpicky.)

My 3/80's don't know about mkpl.