On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:00:06 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> wrote:

 > >AFAIK, e.g. Suns always use the same ethernet address for all their
 > >interfaces, don't they?
 > 
 > They do.  At least for the Sun interfaces.

Right ... however, this scheme is broken for hosts which have multiple
interfaces in the same physical broadcast domain.  As I recall, Sun
allowed changing the MAC address with ifconfig(8) to address this
problem.

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