On Tue, 23 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Pass a command line parameter telling the kernel the MAC address of the
> > card you want it to use. Or let it send bootp requests through every card
>
> Arghh hello world this is becoming a broken record. MAC addresses are NOT
> always per card.
IIRC, Sun machines have a per-MACHINE MAC address, for example; Token Ring
cards used to have admin-defined MAC addresses, at which point all bets
are off. I've seen a handful of cards with NULL MAC addresses, too.
Sending the bootp requests through every card is the remaining choice,
then?
James.
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