Re(2): [SunRescue] Stupid NVRAM questions

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim_hauber at STEV.net [mailto:tim_hauber at STEV.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:25 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re(2): [SunRescue] Stupid NVRAM questions
> 
> 
> rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
> >Do you think Sun would provide this if I asked them?  So if I were to
> >actually have this machine
> >be on the internet (when I eventually get DSL), it doesn't 
> matter if I
> >have by coincidence the
> >same MAC as someone else on the other side of the country?
> 
> Nope, it would only matter if it was on the same subnet, on 
> the same side
> of the same router.  The only machines that use MAC address 
> are routers,
> hubs and switches, talking to machines, when info from your 
> machine goes
> through a router, all that goes with it is the IP number, the 
> next router
> down the line can't even see your MAC address.

Most hubs don't have a clue what your MAC address is either.  And a hub
certainly doesn't care what your MAC address is.
	Greg