From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Dec 8 12:23:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E21B37B401; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D0043E4A; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:23:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB8KeHxQ075416; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:40:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB8KeGHo075415; Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:40:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:40:16 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Anders Nordby Cc: Andrzej Kwiatkowski , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiple interfaces -> one MAC Message-ID: <20021208154016.E65438@locore.ca> References: <20021204160900.F5536-100000@kwiatek.eu.org> <20021204112929.P35729@locore.ca> <20021208200931.GA18542@totem.fix.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021208200931.GA18542@totem.fix.no>; from anders@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:09:31PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:09:31PM +0100, Anders Nordby said words to the effect of; > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:29:30AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > >> Every Card have got one Mac address. > >> How can i change to every card was showing its own MAC ??? > > You can use the attached patch, it will make them use their local mac address > > unconditionally. Given that we're in code freeze I'm not sure when/if this > > support will be committed. > > Another thing one could try would be to set the PROM variable > local-mac-address to true: > > ok setenv local-mac-address? true This only works for netbooting from the prom though. The os needs to check the prom property and either use the global prom ethernet address or the local-mac-address property of the node for the ethernet card when assigning MAC addresses. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message