Re: network set-up problem

Andreas Moestedt <[email protected]> Wed, 28 May 2003 12:14:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

On many Sun machines (all?) you can set the OBP variable "local-mac-address?"
to "true". Then each network device can have it's own address.