Subject: Re: sys/arch/hp300/dev/if_le.c broken
To: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/1995 09:37:47
Peter Galbavy writes:
> As a complete aside... has anyone got a suitable set of diff's to
> ifconfig and various drivers to make something like 'ifconfig le0
> ether xx:...' work ?
>
> Just asking because if I run a NetBSD/sparc system, all the Ethernet
> devices have the same MAC address (blame Sun).
Why is that a bad thing? It follows the original intent of the way
Ethernet was used at Xerox, actually. SunOS works just fine with
things set up that way.
Perry