On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:43 AM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote:
Jim Fron wrote:
Since I'm running an SS20, all of my _real_ interfaces have the same
MAC address (for Sparc 32-bit, it's a property of the machine, not
the NIC).
My SS20 is not at hand for the moment, but i do think there is an open
firmware settings that changes this behavior:
setenv local-mac-address? true
should be your friend.
It would be, if I didn't have "le" cards, which don't support having
their own MAC address.
It looks as though the QFE cards do, though. I may try to pick one up
used, but it's a gamble, because it's only a guess [that my problem
with `bridge` screwing up the interface names for pf is due to having
the same hardware address on 2 NIC's on the bridge], based on a single
post found on the web. That's not the most reassuring recommendation,
and a used QFE card is going to run half what I paid for this box in
the first place. :-)
(Not that it wouldn't be nice to throw 10/100 at this application,
rather than just 10bT, but until the Sparc port supports SMP in
-stable, I'm not sure it could handle sustained 100bT load anyway.)
In any event, until I can try that experiment, I may have to poke
around and see what there is to see about what might be causing the
confusion. Bits and bytes are free; SBUS cards aren't. ;)
JMF
