On 31 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 13:33, Alex Buell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That depends on the network card.  Most of the older sbus cards don't
> have a mac address on the card.  The BE devices are certainly older.
> Both network cards having the same MAC address isn't an issue unless
> you're using both of them on the same network segment.  If the machine
> will be acting as a router between your local area network and the
> Internet, then there's no reason to mess around and change the mac
> address.

Hmm.

I tried to use the be0 card with my private network (192.168.0/24), and it
just didn't work. Pings did not work at all.

Looking at the routing tables, it seemed to be tied to the MAC addresses,
which was why I was asking.

> I'm not a NetBSD guru, but under the Linux kernel, you can specify the
> MAC address for a card to use with ifconfig.  I'm sure there's similar
> functionality in NetBSD, though it may not be as simple as ifconfig.

Hmm..
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