tom_kooij said:
> The NVRAM battery of the IPX is dead, so I set sensible values first and
> type "boot net" 

**** Capture of the serial console:

SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
ROM Rev. 2.3, 32 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.

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Sorry, but the above ethernet address is not what I'd call "sensible."
It won't work.

Set your ethernet address to something like:

08:00:20:xx:xx:xx

where xx:xx:xx is any set of 3 hex octet values you feel like (and
aren't already in use by some other Sun on the net) and is also used
as part of the hostid.

See http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html for details.

-d