Invalid IPprom content

2007-12-25 11:55:00

Thanks for everybody who responded, here is the list:

Christopher L. Barnard

Marco Greene

Peter Laws

David Staggs

Sean Quaint

The response was that it could be the bad battery in the NVRAM.

Marco Green pointed me to sun-nvram-hostid.faq which available at:

This faq answers every questions I had and I should be able to solve my

problem, thanks!

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Here is my original posting:

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Deepak Sinha wrote:

> Hi Sun Managers,

> When I reboot my sparc 20, I get diagnostic of invalid IPprom content and

> the Ethernet address is showing up as all 0's i.e. 00:00:00:00:00:00.

> Is there a way I can assign this to a valid address, (I know the original

> address) ? Or the solution is to replace the IDprom?

> Thanks,

> Deepak

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