Subject: Re: Netzworccard installation !?
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/27/2003 21:25:45
Thus spake Brett Lymn ("BL> ") sometime Tomorrow...
/* man, gotta love "pine" and Time Travel! */

BL> iirc the ethernet specification says that the MAC address is unique to
BL> the _node_, since most PC's only have one NIC tying the MAC to the NIC
BL> was a valid move.... I think that Sun took a literal reading of the
BL> spec and made the MAC the same on all interfaces.  In later versions
BL> of the boot prom there is a environment variable you can set (the name
BL> of which escapes me at the moment)

ok setenv local-mac-address? true

will force the interfaces to use different MAC addresses.

BL> that will turn this behaviour off and give each network interface a
BL> unique MAC.

				--*greywolf;
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