> I recently installed a second ethernet on the sbus of the SPARC I've
> been playing with NetBSD on.  At boot time the kernel reports, in part,
> 
> le0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0xc00000 pri 5: hardware address 08:00:20:10:44:eb
> le1 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0xc00000 pri 5: hardware address 08:00:20:10:44:eb
> 
> This looks fishy to me.  I thought that every ethernet interface by
> definition had its own distinctive hardware address, different from
> that of any other ethernet interface in existence.

I can verify that this is normal behaviour for Suns when running SunOS 4
and configured with multiple Ethernet interfaces: every one gets the
same address. I presume it's a feature of the PROM. It would only be a
problem if you connected >1 interfaces to the same Ethernet segment,
which would be a pretty weird thing to do.

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Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,        <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
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