Re: [suse-sparc] network set-up problem

[Andreas Rother]

> Second, I noticed that the MAC addresses for both boards appears the same in
> the bootup messages you listed below. That seems odd, like one of them isn't
> identifying itself correctly. Or the driver has a bug?
>
>>    sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>    eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:1d:d5:7c
>>    eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
>>    eth1: LANCE 08:00:20:1d:d5:7c

The duplicate MAC address is not a bug. On sparc architecture the MAC address is "attached" to the machine, not to a single network device. Therefore every network card of a machine has the same MAC. This is no problem as long as the NIC are in different networks. The MAC address is set in the NVRAM, at least at my IPX.
Kind regards,
Andreas Rother