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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:29:55 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel motherboard "Ethernet console"
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020417082658.021c4690@nospam.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020417025022.Y42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020416231827.02168710@nospam.lariat.org>

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At 12:50 AM 4/17/2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
  
>It wouldn't be LAT; if it was DEC flavored it would be MOP-RC.  :)

Well, whatever it is, it's likely to be right on the MAC layer.
And since there doesn't seem to be a place to tell the motherboard
the MAC address, it must either discover the console's MAC address
or use (shudder!) broadcast packets for everything. 

--Brett Glass


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