Subject: Re: The impossible has happened.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/12/1996 22:32:57
On March 12, you wrote:
> While testing ethernet things, I discovered that the
> impossible has happened. I have two ethernet cards with the same
> ethernet (raw) address. Actually, it's highly unlikely that this is
> true, but I get the following from my messages file (and on boot):
Under SunOS, I have always had the driver report the same ethernet
address on boot when it identifies the devices. I'm not sure why it
happened, but it *always* happened, on well over thirty different
SPARC-based systems that had more than one ethernet adapter.
-Dave McGuire
mcguire@digex.net