Hi:

	I know for certain that the following FAQ discusses changing the default
MAC address. Most of this FAQ is intended for hostid changes as well as
dead batteries.

http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Good luck,

-mike



At 09:38 PM 5/31/99 +1000, Graham Jenkins wrote:
>We have a couple of ancient machines with dead batteries, and this has
>prevented us from doing a NetBSD install on them.  However, they will
>boot from Solaris 2.7 and SunOS 4.x disks.  So - they will probably
>also boot from disks on which NetBSD 1.4 (or 1.3.3) has already been
>installed.
>
>The difficulty I forsee is that they won't have an intrinsic MAC address,
>so they may not talk to a router.  Rumour has it that Sparc's can be told
>what MAC address they should assign to themselves.  Can someone please
>let me know how ??
>
>G
>
>

Michael C. Ibarra
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