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Date:      Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:40:22 -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:  <42010276.60603@alaska.net>
In-Reply-To: <4200FF76.7050006@alaska.net>
References:  <20050202180837.24f5e17b.hvcjapan@yahoo.co.jp> <20050202094735.GA89279@ida.interface-business.de> <20050202160801.GE26456@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <4200FF76.7050006@alaska.net>

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On 2/2/2005 7:27 AM, Royce Williams wrote:

> 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

Whoops -- forgot to mention:

I think that 5.3 and -CURRENT after May 22 also have eeprom(8), which
can be used to talk to the OBP and set local-mac-address ... but (wince)
I don't have a 5.3 sparc64 box handy to double-check.

-royce

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