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- From: zcjm0f@wwnv45.uucp (CJohn Mace)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Sun Ethernet cards
- Keywords: Ethernet addressn
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.171654.24363@hou.amoco.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:16:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.132857.646@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> <1992Nov20.154819@sld60pki-nbg.philips.de> <1992Nov22.100440.4340@ukw.uucp>
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- >pla_kbh@sld60pki-nbg.philips.de (Kurt Behnke (TEAM SOS)) writes:
- >
- >>On two of our Sun (Sparc 2) WS we have installed an additional Ethernet
- >>controller (le1; the onboard controller is le0). The purpose is to try
- >>some OSI protocols on a small network, and not to interfere with the usual
- >>IP traffic on the standard LAN.
- >
- >>When booting, the Sun OS takes the Ethernet address from le0, and assigns it
- >>to le1, so that both have the same address. This even applies if le0 is
- >>not connected. Since we want to use the second
- >>net for some different kind of traffic the following questions arise:
- >
- >In fact, the Ethernet cards do not have an address; the Ethernet address
- >is in the non-writable portion of the NVRAM.
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- Each card does have its own address. You can change a flag in the kernal
- .h files to allow the cards to use their own addresses instead of the nvram
- address. If you want further information on it, please email me at
- zcjm0f@hou.amoco.com. I do not think this is a really viable solution,
- as SVR4 will not have a compilable kernel and you will be forced to use
- the current addressing state.
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- cjohn mace
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