Gah.. I've just spent the last few hours trying to set up a SPARCstation
with an extra network card. Apaprently with local-mac-address? set to true
both of them still uses the same MAC addresses.

The extra network card is a be0 device. ifconfig -a shows the following:

[root@sparc4]/root # ifconfig -a
le0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:20:7d:a9:06
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fe7d:a906%le0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
be0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 08:00:20:7d:a9:06
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX half-duplex)
        status: no carrier

I'm tearing my hair out here, guys. What I wanted to be able to do is to
attach a cable modem to the be0 card, and use the SPARCstation as a router
on my private network. I've yet to attach a cable to the be0 card, I don't
want to risk screwing up my set top box downstairs until I can easily
configure either of the cards to work.

I tried to switch the network stuff over to the be0 card from the internal
le0 port, but that didn't work. I suspect its because of the MAC
addresses.

How on earth can I make it so that both network cards have separate MAC
addresses?

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