Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 05:25:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: "Vladislav V. Anikiev" <vladani@mail.spbnit.ru>, Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC address Message-ID: <3C65235E.F46A40B1@mindspring.com> References: <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru> <3C649564.F51D18BE@mindspring.com> <20020209133738.A31278@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Some NICs allow you to change the default MAC address by > > reflashing the BIOS in them. There are tools to do this > > in software. > > Or just reprogram it for runtime use only. DECnet comes to mind. > No flashing needed there. Yes. The LANCE based DEQNA's from the MicroVAX II were really strange in supporting that. It wasn't until I realized that the MAC address was the DEC assigned address block prefix plus an internal prefix, plus the DECNet node number, that I realized why I could not talk to DECNet with my raw EtherLink I drivers, even though the packets were formatted correctly. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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