Re: network set-up problem

It is true that you can set the OBP variable
"local-mac-address?" to "true", but Linux doesn't take
that into account, so there is no way AFAIK to have
one MAC address per card, which prevents you from
having the 2 cards on the same network.

Bertrand.

 --- Andreas Moestedt <[email protected]> wrote: > 
> > 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.
> 
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