From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 8 14:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net (raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9EA37B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.143.27.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.143.27] helo=mindspring.com) by raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161y1n-0004BL-00; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:52:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3BEB0CC9.451A4B0F@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:52:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leo Bicknell Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard. References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA229405F@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> <15338.62167.240104.199613@guru.mired.org> <20011108164512.A54891@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leo Bicknell wrote: > * Users wish to replace a card but have it use the same MAC > address due to filters, static arp entries, caches that take too > long to expire, bootp entries that are based on MAC address, etc. > For years cards had the MAC in a separate ROM to make this possible > with a chip swap too. I forgot this one. Mostly, though, this is done for licensing software that uses the MAC as the machine serial number. Lot of code does that on Windows... and not a little code on UNIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message