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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