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At 06:46 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Joseph Mack wrote:
>On 8 Aug 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
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>> >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Joseph> that's nice too. I kinda remember the duals that come with
>> Joseph> Sun boxes were really strange and the strangeness (that I
>> Joseph> remember) was that there was only 1 MAC address.
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>> Technically, the spec allows this though Sun are the only ones who do
>> it, AFAIK. Worse still, Sun hardware shares MAC addresses across
>> multiple cards not just multiple ports on a single card. Oh well.
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>Is this useful, or is Sun just being different?
Sun also allows you to change the MAC address on the card.
I have a quad ethernet card made by Sun, it has the same
MAC address on all four ethernet interface, plus, you can
change them using ifconfig command. This has one advantage,
if you brought any license software that is tied to the MAC
address, you can upgrade your CPU and still be able to
use it. -- Wayne
>Joe
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