[SunHELP] SunOS4/IPC: Change mac

[Sandwich Maker]

one should be able to set this with eeprom(1m) at boot time too.

to my recollection, there was also a bit of freeware - for sunos4 at
least - that intercepted the kernel mac call and substituted whatever
mac one wished.

ah!  http://www.squirrel.com/sun-stuff/change-sun-hostid.tar.gz
http://www.buildmonkey.com/download/hostid.tar.gz for solaris2 8-10 at
least.
see http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

" From: Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>
" 
" Hi
" 
" At OBP
" 
" 80 1 mkp
" 8 0 20 c0 ff ee c0ffee mkpl
" Ctrl D
" Ctrl R
" 
" That should sort it, just substitute your value for c0 ff ee
" 
" Peter
" 
" 
" > On 20 Dec 2014, at 21:59, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
" >
" > Hello,
" >
" > I've got a busted NVRAM (shocker) on my IPC...and I am impatient.
" >
" > Is there a way to change the mac from user/kernel land?  `ifconfig` seems to
" not do it in SunOS 4.
" >
" > Alternatively, what're the ancient-OBP commands to change the mac? I don't
" need it committed to the NVRAM it won't save to...just change it so my router
" accepts the system with null mac.
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