Re: [suse-sparc] MAC Adresses of NICs

From: Tor Sigurdsson (tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 17:10:30 PST

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    Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 01:10:30 +0000
    From: Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@suse.starf.rhi.hi.is>
    Message-ID: <20001104011030.A16330@dustpuppy.suse.starf.rhi.hi.is>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] MAC Adresses of NICs
    

    It's a normal behaviour on SUN boxen that all ethercards have the same MAC.

    This does also go for Solaris and SunOS.

    -tosi

    On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:16:26AM -0900, Leif Sawyer wrote:
    > 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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