Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:14:37 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> Cc: redjupiter <redjupiter@ntlworld.com>, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 device - Intel NIC Message-ID: <200212202214.gBKMEbvV000679@beast.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:59:07 EST." <20021220215907.GE67177@smnolde.com>
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> The MAC address must be unique to the network Must be unique on the LAN segment, but not necessaryily across the enterprise (as long as your switch infrastructure doesn't see the same MAC in two places). This can be a problem on older Sun hardware with multiple network cards, since the Suns seemed to set all the cards on the host to the same MAC address (that of the primary card). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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