On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, John Kristoff wrote:
Fortunately, this practice rarely occurs these days (token ring / SNA shops often did this) although I'd be curious if anyone still does it.
box:~ # /sbin/lspci | grep 'Happy' 01:03.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Happy Meal (rev 01) box:~ # /sbin/ifconfig | grep 'eth' eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BE:EF:00:B0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BE:EF:00:B1 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BE:EF:00:B2 eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BE:EF:00:B3 It didn't come with it's own MAC address pre-programmed... - d. -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/