On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, der Mouse wrote:

>This is also assuming the ethernet address lives in the card (which is
>not necessarily the case - Suns, for example, have per-machine ethernet
>addresses stored in the "EEPROM", not interface-hardware-known
>per-interface addresses).  Admittedly, if the machine keeps its
>ethernet address elsewhere, it's probably available even if there are
>no ethernets on the machine at present....

I ISTR reading somewhere that Suns have one MAC address in the ID-PROM
and another (unique) one in each ethernet and FDDI adaptor.  By default,
all the interfaces use the ID-PROM address, but AFAIR there used to be
some option to ifconfig under SunOS 4 which would show you the adaptor's
MAC address, and let you use that instead.


Roger

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