Your NVRAM is dead, and your ethernet address has been set to
	'all ones', which coincidently is the ethernet broadcast address.
	SunOS and early version of NetBSD use this value without testing,
	which, although convenient in some cases, is Just Plain Wrong.

	You will need to plug in some values using the PROM - see
	http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

	(This is cc'ed to www@netbsd.org, to be added to the NetBSD/sparc
	FAQ on www.netbsd.org :)

		David/absolute

 -=-  "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing"  -=-

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Craig Beasland wrote:

> Matthew,
> 
> I get le0 detected hen the kernel boots,
> 
> > le0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0xc00000 level 5: address 08:00:20:0f:5e:de
> > le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> 
> except mine says address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 
> ifconfig le0 gives
> le0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRALIERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>mtu 1500
> 	media: Ethernet 10base5
> 	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0x0
> 
> and if I try and assign an IP...
> ifconfig le0 203.33.30.210 netmask 0xffffff00
> this changes to
> le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRALIERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>mtu 1500
> 	media: Ethernet 10base5
> 	status: active
> 	inet 203.33.30.210 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 203.33.30.255
> 
> I also should mention that I get the following messages on a different
> machine when I try to configure this one...
> arp: ether address is broadcast for IP address 203.33.30.210!
> 
> I should also mention that the network port works a treat under SunOS, I
> managed to download and write the boot disk I am using from under SunOS and
> if I try and boot back into SunOS, I can configure the network using
> ifconfig.
> 
> Thanks again
> craig
>