[SunHELP] How can I find the default ether (MAC) address of an interface?

[Adam Victor Reed]

Yes, that's it.  Before installing Solaris 10 I reset eeprom to default
values - and local-mac-address? defaults to false!  There is actually
a document about this,

http://www.sun-rays.org/lib/sunsolve/16733.html

which I missed because, even though it looks like an official SunSolve
doc, is not under sun.com. and so my Google searches didn't find it.

Many thanks, Stephen!

-- 
				Adam Reed
				areed2 at calstatela.edu
				 
Context matters. Seldom does *anything* have only one cause.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:40:13AM -0700, stephen price wrote:
> eeprom local-mac-address? = true
> and
> reboot
> 
> or drop to obp prompt and set 
> local-mac-address? = true
> and boot
> 
> this will allow the true mac addr of each interface.
> 
> I'm "assuming" that it is currently set to false - and
> that's why you only see the one mac addr.
> 
> regards
> steve
> 
> --- Adam Victor Reed <areed2 at calstatela.edu> wrote:
> 
> > After installing Solaris 10 on a machine with two
> > network interfaces,
> > I noticed that they are running with the same ether
> > (MAC) address:
> > 
> > # ifconfig -a ether
> > lo0:
> >
> flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL>
> > mtu 8232 index 1
> > ce0:
> > flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>
> > mtu 1500 index 2
> >         ether 8:0:20:e9:e:6
> > hme0:
> > flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>
> > mtu 1500 index 3
> >         ether 8:0:20:e9:e:6
> > 
> > I would like each interface to have its own,
> > separate and different
> > ether address.  Preferably the actual hardware
> > default (factory) MAC
> > address of each.  But I never wrote down their
> > original MAC addresses.
> > How can I find out what their original (factory) MAC
> > addresses were?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > -- 
> > 				Adam Reed
> > 				areed2 at calstatela.edu
> > 				 
> > Context matters. Seldom does *anything* have only
> > one cause.
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