Re: network set-up problem

> Second, I noticed that the MAC addresses for both boards appears the 
same in
> the bootup messages you listed below. That seems odd, like one of them 
isn't
> identifying itself correctly. Or the driver has a bug?
> 
>>    sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([email protected])
>>    eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:1d:d5:7c
>>    eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
>>    eth1: LANCE 08:00:20:1d:d5:7c

The duplicate MAC address is not a bug. On sparc architecture the MAC 
address is "attached" to the machine, not to a single network device. 
Therefore every network card of a machine has the same MAC. This is no 
problem as long as the NIC are in different networks. The MAC address is 
set in the NVRAM, at least at my IPX. 
Kind regards,
Andreas Rother