I have a number of assorted 1.3.3 Sparc machines in use at my company
as Xterminals, all with the '/dev/console' line commented out (because
its not really practicable to run a console window - users sometimes
use a local window manager, and sometimes XDM on a remote host). Yet
when LAN traffic gets heavy, they all get 'excessive collisons' messages
thrown onto the screen.  Is this fixed in 1.4.x - or is there another
way around it ?

On another issue - one of the above-mentioned machines thinks it has 2
ethernet cards with the same MAC address .. as shown in the 'messages'
and 'ifconfig' extracts hereunder.  What is going on here ??       G.

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sbus0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf8000000: clock = 20 MHz
le0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0xc00000 pri 5: address 08:00:20:0e:9a:49
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
dma0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x400000: rev 1+
esp0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x800000 pri 3: ESP100A, 20MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets
probe(esp0:3:0): max sync rate 4.03Mb/s
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <CONNER, CP30200  SUN0207, 4234> SCSI2 0/direct fi
xed
sd0: 203MB, 2123 cyl, 4 head, 49 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 416108 sectors
le1 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0xc00000 pri 5: address 08:00:20:0e:9a:49
le1: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0: SUNW,501-1481, 1152 x 900, rev 1 (console)
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c714553@sleepy /usr/staff/c714553> ifconfig -a
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:20:0e:9a:49
        media: manual status: active
        inet 172.242.36.126 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
le1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:20:0e:9a:49
        media: manual
lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976
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