> 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...
> --
> tsch??,
> Jochen
>
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
>
Has anyone ever decoded the Sun barcodes and system serial numbers to
figure out what their scheme is on the original id's?
Why they won't make that available is beyond me.
Bill
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Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 07:15:03 BST