Thanks much for the responses. My ignorance of Sun systems has been exposed! Setting the new ether addr did the trick.
Dennis On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jay D Allen wrote: > Suns have always done this (same MAC on all interfaces). It can confuse > the hell out of an ethernet switch. Are both interfaces plugged into the > same network? If so you need to select another MAC address. Just ifconfig > in another ethernet address: > > ifconfig eth1 10.10.10.10 hw ether 00:10:5A:9E:9E:A4 > > If each interface is on a different network (in the ethernet sense, can be > connected by routers, but no switches or bridges) then it does not matter. > If it _did_ matter, an awfull lot of firewalls would stop working. :) > > Jay D. Allen > Advisory Software Engineer > > IBM® Corp., Web Servers Division, Solutions Development > 15450 SW Koll Pkwy. MS: UMP2-370, Beaverton, OR 97006 > Phone: (503) 578-7688 T/L 578-7688 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Jay D Allen/Beaverton/IBM
