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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:13:34PM -0700, Wayne wrote:
> At 06:46 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Joseph Mack wrote:
> >On 8 Aug 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >
> >> >>>>> "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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >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
Many cards suppored under linux allow you to change the MAC address
and this is done using the ifconfig command.
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Horms
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