Subject: Re: Sun qfe in i386 question
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/31/2004 10:09:11
In article <20041230090352.GA26889@energetic.uct.ac.za>,
	Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za> writes:
> You'll probably need to set the MAC addresses manually as Sun NICs take
> their MACs from the PROM (which your i386 machine won't have).

That's not correct. Most Sun NICs(*) have own MAC addresses especially QFEs.
It's the operating system which chooses the MAC address for the card. Even
Solaris will use the MAC address of the NIC if the PROM property
"local-mac-address?" is set to "true".

	Kind regards

(*) The only case were I couldn't get a Sun system to use different
    MAC address for its NICs was Enterprise 4500 which insisted to
    use the same MAC address for all its three HME ports.

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/