SS1 ethernet MAC address...

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Wed Aug 29 14:10:29 2001

At 10:39 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Of course you'd have to pay them: they have to take a # from
>from their database, update their mfg systems, mail you a
>MAC address label...it's a service ans you should expect to pay!
>IEEE charges about 3KU$ for a range of MAC addresses and entry.

Hmmm, could it be because they should have coded the HostID into something
OTHER than a NVRAM that they knew would lose it's battery
eventually??? it's just a method to make a few extra bucks to them.

  Of course there's also the fact that Sun is using a location in the NVRAM
that is not in the manufacturers spec so if you get a current rev 48tXX
chip to use in your sun, the OBP(bios) complains about a bad NVRAM chip
:(:(:( ST Microelectronics recently redid the timekeeper chips using a
smaller die, and in doing so, recoded them to operate exactly to what the
published spec has always said.. Sun uses a non-documented location in the
nvram for some of it's power-on tests so that now fails with the
timekeepers that are 100% specification compliant.
Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 14:10:29 BST