[rescue] Anyone know the encoding on the older IDPROMs?

[Romain Dolbeau]

(2nd try, the first attempt generated a '550 5.7.1 message content
rejected' ?!?)

Le lun. 2 aoC;t 2021 C  16:09, Ethan Hawke <ehawk at ember.systems> a C)crit :
> Does anyone have any information on how to decode the 4 digit code on
> the old NVRAMs to a MAC address?

IIRC, some years ago, someone explained (here? somewhere else
Sun-related?) that there was an internal database at Sun and that
there was no documented way to reconstruct the hostid/mac from just
the 4-characters label/barcode.

> For example I have an IPX with code SBZ9 on the NVRAM, based on the logs

At this stage, as long as there is no MAC conflict on the LAN, it
probably doesn't matter much which MAC/hostid you set it to :-)
A reasonable bet is whichever one is oldest in the log if you want an
'original' one.

Otherwise if you only have one IPX on the LAN, you could use
8:0:20:49:50:58 (== use IPX in ASCII) to make it easy to
remember/spot in logs.

Cordially,

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Romain Dolbeau