Unfortunately, you won't be able to fake things out by putting
that address in the arp table.  The 3/80 may act like it's going to
do something at that point, but it will not.  The NVRAM is dead and
the box comes up hosed.  You need to go get the NVRAM FAQ from www.sunhelp.com
and look through there.  You'll have to follow the instructions to go
into the NVRAM from the prom and put in a valid machine ID, MAC address,
etc...  It's not hard, just takes a few minutes to get it right.
Then the machine will come up properly.

The NVRAM chip can be replaced easy enough.  You'll need an M48T02
clock/ram chip with battery.

In short, the nvram procedure works something like thisL

m a fedfa000<enter>
33fa500<enter>
<CTRL-d><ENTER>
m b fedfa000<enter>
33fb80a<enter>
<CTRL-D><ENTER>
p fedfa000<enter>
64000049<ENTER>
<CTRL-D><ENTER>
o fedfa7d8<ENTER>    /* Lower case "oh", not zero. */
01<ENTER>
42<ENTER>
08<ENTER>
00<ETNER>
20<ENTER>
D1<ENTER>
0A<ENTER>
87<ENTER>
00<ENTER>
00<ENTER>
00<ENTER>
00<ENTER>
D1<ENTER>
0A<ENTER>
87<ENTER>
6B<ENTER>
<CTRL-D><ENTER>
k 2<ENTER>

HTH!

I this sequence will put in the mac address 08:00:20:D1:0A:87
and the xor based checksum of the ID bytes.  For more detail,
you'll need to read the faq.

On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 06:46:06PM +0100, Pållen wrote:
> Yep. It claims to hace mac adress 0:0:0:0:0:0 *sigh*
> 
> Well, I put that up in /etc/ethers on my server and gave it an IP number.
> 
> Then it just continues to ask for it's adress and arp -a thinks the
> adresse is incomplete. Ah, now it's presented as 0:0:0:0:0:0. This should
> work in my small LAN behind a NAT. But I still don't get ANYTHING out from
> port A.
> 
> But I'm on my way to get some life in this box!
> 
> ---
> /Pållen - http://www.astrakan.hig.se/~pollen
>           telnet://mumindalen.astrakan.hig.se
> 
> 

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