Subject: Re: 2nd sbus ethernet... MAC address problems.
To: Secret Asian Man <cchen@nougat.org>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/11/2000 13:52:56
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Secret Asian Man wrote:
> Hello... Got in interesting question here.
>
> I'm running 1.4.2 on a Sparc 5 and yesterday I installed a 2nd lance sbus card, so that's le1. Anyway, on boot I see:
>
> ledma0 at sbus0 slot 5 offset 0x8400010: rev 2
> le0 at ledma0 slot 5 offset 0x8c00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:1f:e3:85
> le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
> power-management at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xa000000 not configured
> audiocs0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xc000000 level 9: CS4231
> audio0 at audiocs0: full duplex
> afx-misc at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0xe000000 not configured
> le1 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0xc00000 level 7: address 08:00:20:1f:e3:85
> le1: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
>
> As you can see, it identifies the hardware addresses as the same for both these cards. This does cause a bit of a problem. Anyway, is this a software issue or are my ethernet adapters throughly fuct?
That's how Sun boxes work. All NICs share the same MAC address. Is this
a problem?
Eduardo Horvath