On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Zetan Gelbard wrote:
> Hi. I'm setting up my ultra1 as a backup firewall while I upgrade
> the main one. Our internet connection is wireless, and the
> upstream router is keyed to a MAC address of a NIC.
> 
> Under Linux, I can set the MAC addr of the card via ifconfig eth0 hw ether
> ....
> 
> How can I do this under NetBSD/sparc64 1.5 ? I'd rather not twiddle
> with the OpenPROM - can I do through the OS? I dont see similar options
> in ifconfig for NetBSD.

Unfortunably no, you can't do this for now. If you have a little knowledge
in C programing you can hack the driver to hardwire the mac addr.
The other option is to reprogram the eprom.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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