Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:02:38 +0200 From: Ronald Kuehn <rk@ronald.org> To: Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quad ethernet card on AXi starts with identical MAC addresses on 5.2.1R Message-ID: <20040719170238.GA3121@sunhsc.germany.sun.com> In-Reply-To: <CD6F5740-D9A3-11D8-A4E6-000A95BA60A4@radio-do.de> References: <CD6F5740-D9A3-11D8-A4E6-000A95BA60A4@radio-do.de>
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On Monday, July 19, 2004 at 18:50:55 CEST, Frank Nobis wrote: > Hi, > > since I have my Sparc for a few days now and could take my hands on a > 4-port ethernet card I have seen that there is something not as I > expected it to behave. > > My 4-port card gets detected and I can use it, but it shows on all > interfaces the same MAC address. Output from boot is appended for > conviniance. I just got around that with manually assigning unique MACs > to all interfaces. > > I am just wondering if that behavior is as intended. Yes, unless you set local-mac-address? to true in OBP. Ronald
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