Subject: Re: 1.0 Ethernet weirdness
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@vitruvius.arbld.UNIMELB.EDU.AU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/21/1995 04:42:41
In some email I received from Greg Earle, they wrote:
> 
> I'm surprised that anyone didn't know that Suns use the same Ethernet address
> for all of the interfaces.  And as people have noted, to use SunLink DNI for
> DECnet addresses, you have to be able to change the MAC layer address so as
> to fit DEC's whacko scheme of embedding the Node/Area in the MAC address.

I thought everyone knew it...

...although I'm sure there are a couple of exceptions to this, but I can't
remember where I saw them (may have been quad-UTP thing).

darren