It appears that FreeBSD has a change that I started to port & test, but life
got in the way and I won't get back to it for a few days.

peter

> From: Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za>
> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:31:21 +0200
> To: port-i386@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Sun qfe in i386 question
> 
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 10:09:11AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
>> That's not correct. Most Sun NICs(*) have own MAC addresses especially QFEs.
>> It's the operating system which chooses the MAC address for the card. Even
>> Solaris will use the MAC address of the NIC if the PROM property
>> "local-mac-address?" is set to "true".
> 
> Very interesting - I wasn't aware that they had MAC addresses.
> 
>> (*) The only case were I couldn't get a Sun system to use different
>>     MAC address for its NICs was Enterprise 4500 which insisted to
>>     use the same MAC address for all its three HME ports.
> 
> According to http://www.foundrynet.com/services/faqs/Sun.html the HME
> doesn't have a hardware address.
> 
> -mj
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