On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> DEQNA's are pretty poor performers but are not taxed by most PDP-11's
> (except perhaps the 11/8x or 11/9x variants. They are unique in that they
> can allegedly change their MAC address by replacing an on board PROM. (Not
> that you'd want to, but you can do it.)

All DEC Ethernet controllers (atleast those usable on VAXen and PDP-11s)
can change the MAC address by software.

I would guess that the initial MAC address is decided by some ROM on all
of them, which obviously can be changed.

	Johnny

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