Subject: Re: Sun qfe in i386 question
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/01/2005 18:17:42
In article <20041231133121.GA13105@energetic.uct.ac.za>,
	Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za> writes:
> 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.

This page is wrong or at least very unprecise.  I don't know whether
the HME chip has a MAC address but PCI and SBus cards with HME chips
on them have MAC addresses.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/