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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nobeltech!ppan
- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Subject: Re: Using non-TCP/IP ethernet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.230534.4256@nobeltech.se>
- Keywords: ethernet interface network
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- References: <1993Jan22.171043.23286@msc.cornell.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:05:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.171043.23286@msc.cornell.edu> savage@msc.cornell.edu (Daniel Svitavsky) writes:
- >
- > Also, ifconfig shows the second ethernet card as having the same ethernet
- >address as the first. Do Suns really have one hardware address per machine?
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- Yep, they join DEC in doing this stupidity. They put the ethernet address in
- the SYSID-prom. I, and many with me, expect each ethernetcard to have a
- unique address, in SUNs, PCs, Macs or whatever. At least DECs cards do
- have addresses, which work if you don't start DECNET on the interface.
-
- One reason to do this might be that software licenses are fixed to the
- machines ethernet-address, but making hardware kludges to support stupid
- software is a bad thing IMO.
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