Re: [suse-sparc] network set-up problem

From: Andreas Moestedt (am_at_virtutech.se)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 12:14:37 CEST


Message-ID: <3ED48C0D.4010205@virtutech.se>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:14:37 +0200
From: Andreas Moestedt <am@virtutech.se>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] network set-up problem


> address is "attached" to the machine, not to a single network device.
> Therefore every network card of a machine has the same MAC. This is no
> problem as long as the NIC are in different networks. The MAC address is
> set in the NVRAM, at least at my IPX.

On many Sun machines (all?) you can set the OBP variable "local-mac-address?"
to "true". Then each network device can have it's own address.

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