RE: [suse-sparc] MAC Adresses of NICs

From: Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 09:16:26 PST

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    From: Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com>
    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:16:26 -0900 
    Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] MAC Adresses of NICs
    

    in your openprom (or if you have the eeprom utility)
    make sure you set the local-mac-address? to true:

    # eeprom local-mac-address\?=true

    Which will let the card's mac address override the sun
    prom mac address.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Dirk Jorda [mailto:dirk@oms.de]
    > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:47 AM
    > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Subject: [suse-sparc] MAC Adresses of NICs
    >
    >
    > Hello,
    >
    > I've installed SS5 with SuSE 7.0. Great thing. I've used
    > the YAST1 to installing three physical NIC's. One NIC onboard
    > (10Mbit) and two Sun FastEthernet SBus adapter cards.
    > I'm using the 'Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT' driver for all
    > NIC's (any other SUN driver isn't working).
    >
    > After rebooting, if I done 'ifconfig', all NIC's are showing
    > the same MAC addresse.
    >
    > Is this a bug ? The funtionalily and routing of each NIC is OK.
    >
    > mfg
    > D. Jorda
    > OMS
    >



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