Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:27:34 -0900 From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> To: Huynh Van Chung <hvcjapan@yahoo.co.jp> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in hme interface MAC address! Message-ID: <4200FF76.7050006@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <20050202160801.GE26456@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20050202180837.24f5e17b.hvcjapan@yahoo.co.jp> <20050202094735.GA89279@ida.interface-business.de> <20050202160801.GE26456@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On 2/2/2005 7:08 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:47:35AM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > >>As Huynh Van Chung wrote: >> >>>In my box (Ultra 10, 333 Modern) with 2 NICs (hme), both of 2 nics >>>get the same Mac address. >> >>That's a feature, not a bug. > > It's consistent with the way Solaris handles things. Before the days > of VLAN switches I called it a feature, now I call it a bug. I know that the standard method of dealing with this is to set local-mac-address?=true in the OBP. However, I seem to recall someone saying that setting it wasn't working for someone under FreeBSD a while back. I don't remember if this was a bug or a feature. I think that Doug White said something at the time about forcing a specific MAC address with: ifconfig_hme1="ether 0a:0:20:00:aa:bb" This conflicted with DHCP, if I recall correctly: you couldn't put "DHCP" and "ether" statement into one rc.conf line or ifconfig statement. I'd have to dig to see what the workaround was. -royce -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Royce D. Williams - IP Engineering, ACS personal: [first]@alaska.net - PGP: 3FC087DB/1776A531 work: [first.last]@acsalaska.net - http://www.tycho.org/royce/
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