Subject: Re: Sun 3/80
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@simon.sfsu.edu>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5llen?= <pollen@astrakan.hig.se>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/18/2000 19:10:58
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Jeremy Cooper wrote:

> /etc/ethers is only used by the rarpd daemon.  It doesn't tell your
> machine what its MAC address is.  That information comes from the NVRAM.

I added the machine as mac adress 00:00:00:00:00:00 and it gets its ip
number with rarpd.

hmm... the nvram battery seems totaly f*cked up.=20

It get's it's ip number but never requests the kernel...

have to dig some more into this.
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