Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:40:16 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Andrzej Kwiatkowski <kwiatek@tpi.pl>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Multiple interfaces -> one MAC Message-ID: <20021208154016.E65438@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021208200931.GA18542@totem.fix.no>; from anders@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:09:31PM %2B0100 References: <20021204160900.F5536-100000@kwiatek.eu.org> <20021204112929.P35729@locore.ca> <20021208200931.GA18542@totem.fix.no>
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Apparently, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:09:31PM +0100, Anders Nordby said words to the effect of; > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:29:30AM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote: > >> Every Card have got one Mac address. > >> How can i change to every card was showing its own MAC ??? > > You can use the attached patch, it will make them use their local mac address > > unconditionally. Given that we're in code freeze I'm not sure when/if this > > support will be committed. > > Another thing one could try would be to set the PROM variable > local-mac-address to true: > > ok setenv local-mac-address? true This only works for netbooting from the prom though. The os needs to check the prom property and either use the global prom ethernet address or the local-mac-address property of the node for the ethernet card when assigning MAC addresses. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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