Hi James & Garrett,
Thank you for your help.
This is a requirement from one of our customer, they filed a bug on our
driver. I do not know why they need this feature.
Tom
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From: "James Carlson" <carls...@workingcode.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:11 PM
To: "Tom Chen" <chento...@hotmail.com>
Cc: <networking-discuss@opensolaris.org>
Subject: Re: [networking-discuss] multiple NIC sharing same MAC address
Tom Chen wrote:
Hi,
I set local-mac-address to false to force all NICs in the system to use
same MAC address on a Sparc server.
#eeprom
local-mac-address?=false
However, my GLDv3 driver still uses its factory MAC address. But I can
set a new MAC address using ifconfig command.
# ifconfig port0 ether 0:1:2:3:4:5
This proved that my xx_m_unicst() GLDv3 function works correctly. I am
wondering where the problem is?
It would probably help to have a short explanation of what you're trying
to accomplish -- that is, why do you need to set all of the NICs to have
the same MAC address?
In general, I'd say that setting all of the addresses the same
(particularly with the ancient and horrible "local-mac-address?" EEPROM
flag) is not a good idea. It's incompatible with the IEEE standards,
and will necessarily break a number of different protocols you might be
using.
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com>
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