On 22 Aug, Gene Buckle wrote:
> I've got an SS1 with a dead NVRAM chip. From the FAQs I've read, it's
> trivial to set the MAC address after the chip dies and it's set to
> FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
It is even trivial to replace the dead battery inside the chip, if you
know where and how to open it...
> Providing I use the Sun "standard" of 08:00:20 as the
> first three bytes of the MAC address, is there any real issue with me
> choosing a random value for the last three bytes?
Just use random bytes. That is what I did. But of course be sure that
there is no other machine on your network with that value...
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tsch??,
Jochen
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Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:48:42 BST