Subject: Re: MAC Address for Machine with Dead Battery
To: Graham Jenkins <c714553@vus415.telstra.com.au>
From: Michael C. Ibarra <ibarra@hawk.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/31/1999 09:44:15
Hi:
I know for certain that the following FAQ discusses changing the default
MAC address. Most of this FAQ is intended for hostid changes as well as
dead batteries.
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
Good luck,
-mike
At 09:38 PM 5/31/99 +1000, Graham Jenkins wrote:
>We have a couple of ancient machines with dead batteries, and this has
>prevented us from doing a NetBSD install on them. However, they will
>boot from Solaris 2.7 and SunOS 4.x disks. So - they will probably
>also boot from disks on which NetBSD 1.4 (or 1.3.3) has already been
>installed.
>
>The difficulty I forsee is that they won't have an intrinsic MAC address,
>so they may not talk to a router. Rumour has it that Sparc's can be told
>what MAC address they should assign to themselves. Can someone please
>let me know how ??
>
>G
>
>
Michael C. Ibarra
ibarra@hawk.com
Hawk Technologies, Inc 100 Park Avenue - Suite 1600 New York, NY 10017
www.hawk.com