--- David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> wrote:
> ! I've got an SS1 with a dead NVRAM chip...
> ! ...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?
Not unless you have some licensed software locked to a particular ID, no.
The only possible problem is if you guess a number that matches another
Sun on your network and you'll have all sorts of fun.
> 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.
I've done it for every sun4c machine I've ever had. At one point, I
had a regular expression to grep out six letter words from /usr/dict/words
with a-f and perhaps i and o. There are a couple more than c0ffee, but
that's the canonical one from the NVRAM FAQ.
-ethan
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Received on Tue Aug 28 2001 - 12:53:30 BST