SS1 ethernet MAC address... (and my collection!)

From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
Date: Thu Aug 23 09:07:59 2001

! 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. 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?

        You might want to check out this web page...
"SUN NVRAM/hostid FAQ"
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

..it talks about how to change the MAC address, as well as changing the
battery in the NVRAM chip. I haven't tried resetting the MAC addresses on my
2 SparcStation 1+ and SparcStation 2 yet, haven't had the chance.

        BTW, talking about collections, besides the 3 Sparcs, I also have...
- Sun SparcStation LX (w/ 20" monitor, and optical mouse)
- DEC VaxStation 3100 M38 (32MB RAM)
- DEC 3000/400 (with the 20" color monitor)
- AlphaStation 200 4/100 (dead power supply, and I think the mainboard might
be dead too.)
- various 68k Macs (LCII, LCIII, SE30, SE HDFD, Classic, IIci) some for
sale/trade
- 2 HP ScanJet flatbeds (for sale/trade)

The Macs are in the basement at home, and the big stuff is in my office at
work :-)

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