At 05:00 PM 8/24/99 , someone using Ben Nagy's login wrote:
>Buh?
>
>You're telling me that every NIC on every Sun box has the _same_ MAC
>address? Exactly how are "all switches" designed to "handle" that?
A single MAC per *motherboard* yes, by default .
All network card(s) plugged on the same Sun will use by default the MAC
address burnt in the Sun's MB EEPROM.
jean
(It can be change in with the eeprom comand
"# eeprom local-mac-address\?=true" ).
>Please tell me that I've drastically misinterpreted this.
>
>Cheers,
>
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>Ben Nagy
>Network Consultant, CPM&S Group of Companies
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>
> > (burnt into the motherboard) all switches are designed to
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