On Thu, 11 May 2000, Secret Asian Man wrote:

> Hello... Got in interesting question here.
> 
> I'm running 1.4.2 on a Sparc 5 and yesterday I installed a 2nd lance sbus card, so that's le1. Anyway, on boot I see:
> 
> ledma0 at sbus0 slot 5 offset 0x8400010: rev 2                                  
> le0 at ledma0 slot 5 offset 0x8c00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:1f:e3:85        
> le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers                                      
> power-management at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xa000000 not configured                
> audiocs0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xc000000 level 9: CS4231                       
> audio0 at audiocs0: full duplex                                                 
> afx-misc at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xe000000 not configured                        
> le1 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0xc00000 level 7: address 08:00:20:1f:e3:85          
> le1: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> 
> As you can see, it identifies the hardware addresses as the same for both these cards. This does cause a bit of a problem. Anyway, is this a software issue or are my ethernet adapters throughly fuct?

That's how Sun boxes work.  All NICs share the same MAC address.  Is this
a problem?

Eduardo Horvath