SS1 ethernet MAC address...

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Aug 23 14:02:47 2001

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Gene Buckle wrote:

> That's pretty cool. I'll have to save this one. I think I'll just
> use DE:AD:BF as the last three. :)

My former co-worker and maintainer of the SUN NVRAM FAQ, Mark Henderson,
is partial to 08:00:20:c0:ff:ee

FWIW I haven't been able to determine any significant relationship between
the serial number of the machine and its hostid, or even between the
latter and the barcode on top of the NVRAM itself.

I will close by just pointing out that a Sun's hostid is '80' plus the
last three octets of the ethernet MAC address. In the above case, the
system's hostid would be '80c0ffee'.

Enjoy your SPARCstations.

ok
r.
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 14:02:47 BST