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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:42:42 +0100 (CET)
From:      Sten <sten@blinkenlights.nl>
To:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netra T1 105 and two ethernet ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.58-Blink.0312200939500.27689@tea.blinkenlights.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20031220013639.GT91270@sirius.firepipe.net>
References:  <F5C1DDA36ABD5049B458492E5FA2A26C7A056C@s31xe3.systems.smu.edu> <20031220013639.GT91270@sirius.firepipe.net>

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:55:22PM -0600, Phillips, Paul wrote:
> > ifconfig hme1 ether 0a:00:20:c2:1c:c2 inet 192.168.1.95 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 up
> >
> > doing it all in one statement as Will suggested, and got back:
> > ifconfig: can't set link-level netmask or broadcast
>
> I think ether needs to go after inet.

my guess is that you can't do ether and inet together in one ifconfig
command, this is a "feature". This was brought up on -current about a
month back.

How is the openboot localmacaddr support going ?, because
that would be the clean solution to the problem (imho).

-- 
Sten Spans

There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in.



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