In Message <9507031337.AA26640@snark.imsi.com> ,
   "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> wrote:

=>
=>Peter Galbavy writes:
=>> As a complete aside... has anyone got a suitable set of diff's to
=>> ifconfig and various drivers to make something like 'ifconfig le0
=>> ether xx:...' work ?
=>> 
=>> Just asking because if I run a NetBSD/sparc system, all the Ethernet
=>> devices have the same MAC address (blame Sun).
=>
=>Why is that a bad thing? It follows the original intent of the way
=>Ethernet was used at Xerox, actually. SunOS works just fine with
=>things set up that way.
=>
   Couldn't it rather confuse intelligent bridges that connect the
two nets?

                                      Gary D. Duzan
                         Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts