From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 14:15:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FEB37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com (quarter.csl.sri.com [130.107.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EA443EE8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:15:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@csl.sri.com) Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (beast.csl.sri.com [130.107.2.57]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gBKMEg2x008192; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:14:42 -0800 Received: from beast.csl.sri.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beast.csl.sri.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBKMEbvV000679; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hogsett@beast.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200212202214.gBKMEbvV000679@beast.csl.sri.com> To: "Scott M. Nolde" Cc: redjupiter , David Wolfskill , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0 device - Intel NIC In-Reply-To: Message from "Scott M. Nolde" of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:59:07 EST." <20021220215907.GE67177@smnolde.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 8.8 (Time Passed Me By)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:14:37 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The MAC address must be unique to the network Must be unique on the LAN segment, but not necessaryily across the enterprise (as long as your switch infrastructure doesn't see the same MAC in two places). This can be a problem on older Sun hardware with multiple network cards, since the Suns seemed to set all the cards on the host to the same MAC address (that of the primary card). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message