Re: Gigaswift card device name

From: Neil Truby (neil.truby_at_ardenta.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:08:10 +0100

"Scott Howard" <scott@hunterlink.net.au> wrote in message
news:1096542532.135898@docbert...
> Darren Dunham <ddunham@redwood.taos.com> wrote:
> > but when I do ifconfig -a
> >> thet all have the same MAC address, so must all be the same on-board
> >> interface card.
> >
> > No. The default for Sun hardware is to use the same address on all
> > interfaces.
>
> Not in this case. For V210/240 and V440's the default is
> local-mac-address?=true

Thank you, Darren and Scott. The card has in fact been working fine for
some time: it's just this MAC address thing that threw me off track.

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