Re: Bridges

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 09/30/05

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    To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:57:41 +0200

    Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
    > Some versions of Solaris with some NICs (definitely Solaris 8 with
    > Cassini NICs) associate a MAC address with the host, rather than the
    > NIC. I'm less certain of the rationale for this.

    Traditionally, Sun boxen had 48-bit serial numbers which they used as
    MAC addresses on all interfaces. I believe this MAC-per-host setup is
    what the Ethernet inventors originally intended.

    Sun now uses off-the-shelf components to a much larger degree than
    they used to, so most of their stuff is now MAC-per-interface.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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