From: Bertrand Sirodot (bertrand_sirodot_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 16:05:21 CEST
Message-ID: <20030528140521.27873.qmail@web20208.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:05:21 +0100 (BST) From: Bertrand Sirodot <bertrand_sirodot@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] network set-up problem
It is true that you can set the OBP variable
"local-mac-address?" to "true", but Linux doesn't take
that into account, so there is no way AFAIK to have
one MAC address per card, which prevents you from
having the 2 cards on the same network.
Bertrand.
--- Andreas Moestedt <am@virtutech.se> wrote: >
> > 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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