Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:52:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard. Message-ID: <3BEB0CC9.451A4B0F@mindspring.com> References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA229405F@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> <15338.62167.240104.199613@guru.mired.org> <20011108164512.A54891@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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Leo Bicknell wrote: > * Users wish to replace a card but have it use the same MAC > address due to filters, static arp entries, caches that take too > long to expire, bootp entries that are based on MAC address, etc. > For years cards had the MAC in a separate ROM to make this possible > with a chip swap too. I forgot this one. Mostly, though, this is done for licensing software that uses the MAC as the machine serial number. Lot of code does that on Windows... and not a little code on UNIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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