Bug in hme interface MAC address!

[Royce Williams]

On 2/2/2005 7:27 AM, Royce Williams wrote:

> On 2/2/2005 7:08 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:47:35AM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>>
>>> As Huynh Van Chung wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my box (Ultra 10, 333 Modern) with 2 NICs (hme), both of 2 nics
>>>> get the same Mac address.
>>>
>>> That's a feature, not a bug.
>>
>> It's consistent with the way Solaris handles things.  Before the days
>> of VLAN switches I called it a feature, now I call it a bug.
> 
> I know that the standard method of dealing with this is to set
> 
>     local-mac-address?=true
> 
> in the OBP.  However, I seem to recall someone saying that setting it

Whoops -- forgot to mention:

I think that 5.3 and -CURRENT after May 22 also have eeprom(8), which
can be used to talk to the OBP and set local-mac-address ... but (wince)
I don't have a 5.3 sparc64 box handy to double-check.

-royce

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