Getting the original ethernet address
2007-12-25 11:42:00
>
> I have a SS1000 that has a mixture of FSBE and SWIFT cards in
>it which are currently connected to a load of subnets on our network.
>I now want to start putting a ethernet-switch into the network which
>will get confused by the sun appearing on all the networks with the
>same ethernet address which, by default, a sun is wont to do. So, I
>need to reset the ethernet addresses of the network interfaces - fine,
>I use ifconfig to do that. But, how do I find out the original
>ethernet address of the cards in my system? I have had a bit of a
>fumble through prtconf but could not see any obvious ethernet
>addresses (apart from the system one which is in the sysid register).
>How can I fish out the "real" ethernet addresses of the cards?
>
>
>BTW Quite a while ago there was a question about a "null" xserver. I
>was waiting for a summary on this one but have not seen it. I sent
>mail to the person who posed the question but never received a reply.
>Did anyone reply to this question? If they did can they let me know
>the answer.... I _will_ summarise this one too.
>
The general consensus was that the extra network interface cards do
not have their own network interface number, they are expected to use
the system one. About the only thing I can do is scrounge some
ethernet numbers from "known dead" devices and re-use them on our Sun.
I am currently going over our dead machines to see if I can get some
"real" sun numbers to use.
As for the null Xserver stuff - I got a response from the Rick Dipper II
about this. He says that he did not get any workable solutions to
this. A pity because it would be very handy for me.
A big thanks to:
brian@chimera.psych.unimelb.edu.au (Brian Desmond)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>
mshon@sunrock.East.Sun.COM (Michael J. Shon {*Prof Services} Sun Rochester)
mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com ("Michael Salehi x22725")
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
jeffw@smoe.org (Jeff Wasilko)
Gokhan Ozkan <Ali.Cetinkaya@raksnet.com.tr>
Rick Dipper - IT <rick.dipper@national-vulcan.co.uk>
For their help.
--
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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