Re: network issues / no network

Julian Coleman <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:28:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

>         address: ef:82:20:c0:4d:f4
> 
> this sounds plausible, isn't it?

> The only thing I can think is that I poisoned the ARP table of some device,
> or that I invented a bad address?

"ef" in the first byte seems wrong.  From a quick check of wikipedia:

  "Universal/local and individual/group bits in MAC addresses"

  "Multicast (group)" "XF-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX"

I don't think that anyone will complain if you reuse Sun's 08:00:20 for
the first half.

For:

> (original is
> lost forever? they are not printed with a sticker, aren't they?)

The barcode/numbers on the top could be decoded by Sun in the past.
However, at this point in time, I would say - yes, the original is lost
forever.  If you want to keep them when replacing the chips or adding a
battery, you will have to write them down somewhere.

Regards,

Julian

PS.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address