[rescue] Two network cards on SS2

[Dave Reader]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Valentine wrote:

>    I'm trying to make something usefule out of SS2... It is going to
>    be a router. Recently Ive purchase the SBUS network card. It does
>    initialize, but both of the cards have the same MAC address.
> 
>    I've heard that on SS2 MAC address is stored in PROM instead of on
>    the NIC itself, whaat would be the best thing to do?

use it as it is?

the MAC address only needs to be unique on the network segment - it would
only be a problem if you intended to connect both interfaces to the same
segment, and that can be better achieved with virtual interfaces / aliases
usually.

what are you trying to do?

d.