[rescue] SWM Seeks SunOS 4.1.4 HME drivers

[Dan Duncan]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, trygve lode wrote:
> > You can change this behavior by setting local-mac-address? to true.
>
> I understand that works with the QFE cards (which I have, but apparently
> these aren't supported under SunOS 4.1.4) but the FastEthernet 2.1 cards
> I have don't have their own local MAC address.

Ah, then obviously that won't work.  See below.

> What I understand is
> that the MAC address has to be set on bootup via ifconfig.
>
> Am I correct in this, and are there any problems I'm currently unaware
> of that I have to watch out for?

Yes, you need to use ifconfig <adapter> ether <mac-addr>

-DanD

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