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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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