MAC Addresses

James Dow jdow at triad-com.com
Wed Jun 28 11:25:52 EDT 2000


I did try that - it only returns the MAC address for already configured
interfaces.

Here is the cure all for my problem:

When adding a NIC on a Solris 7 box (may work on others but i'm not sure) in
order to not use the Solaris default MAC address:

from the prom prompt:

setenv local-mac-address?=true

If true, network drivers use there own MAC address, not the systems's
default.


Thanks for the help guys

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony J. Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel at coe.neu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:02 AM
To: James Dow
Cc: discuss at Blu.Org
Subject: Re: MAC Addresses


Hello,
	Did you try an ifconfig -a as root?

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, James Dow wrote:

> Hiya people.
>
> I have a quick question that I know (hope)someone here can answer.
>
> I have a Sun E450 running Solaris 7 with 4 NIC Cards: 3 fast ethernet and
1
> fibre gigabyte.
>
> Without opening the box, how can I poll the machine for the MAC Addresses?
> I'm not overly concerned with
> the fibre card as it is not currently used, but I need to configure the
> other 3 after I complete setting up the box.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated
>
>
> Jim
>
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