From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 9 5:37:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D005C37B41C for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 05:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0251.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.251] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ZXgx-00012P-00; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 05:37:23 -0800 Message-ID: <3C65235E.F46A40B1@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 05:25:50 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "Vladislav V. Anikiev" , Brian Reichert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC address References: <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru> <3C649564.F51D18BE@mindspring.com> <20020209133738.A31278@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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 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