Subject: Re: 1.0 Ethernet weirdness
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@hulk.sfsu.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/1995 00:51:25
On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Darren Reed wrote:

> 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).

I havn't seen any exceptions yet. Even those quad-UTP things...

qe0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 8:0:20:12:87:54
qe1: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 8:0:20:12:87:54
qe2: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 8:0:20:12:87:54
qe3: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 8:0:20:12:87:54

Jon