Subject: Re: 2nd sbus ethernet... MAC address problems.
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/11/2000 13:58:52
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 01:52:59PM -0700, Secret Asian Man wrote:

 > 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?

No, this is normal.  The MAC address on Suns is stored in an EEPROM
on the mainboard.

Some cards have a local-mac-address property, and NetBSD should use that
property if it is present.. however, at this time, I don't think we do.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>