Sun Microsystems X1150A - Manual (Page 41)

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 19
The phy-type will have its value assigned as follows:
Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-address property, note the
local-mac-address of your device at this time. See “Setting the local-mac-
address Property” on page 19 for more information.
Setting the local-mac-address Property
Note – Setting the local-mac-address property is only required if you will be
booting from the network.
The network interface of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter has been assigned a
unique media access control (MAC) address that represents the 48-bit Ethernet
address for that interface. The OpenBoot firmware reports this MAC address via the
local-mac-address property in the device nodes corresponding to the network
interface.
A system is not obligated to use this assigned MAC address if it has a system-wide
MAC address. In such cases, the system-wide MAC address applies to all network
interfaces on the system.
The device driver, or any other adapter utility, can use the network device’s MAC
address (
local-mac-address ) while configuring it. In the Solaris operating
environment, you can use the MAC address when booting over the network.
The mac-address property of the network device specifies the network address
(system-wide or local-mac-address ) used for booting the system. To start using
the MAC address assigned to the network interface of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet
adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable
local-mac-address? to true .
Media type phy-type
Fiber pcs
Copper mif
ok setenv local-mac-address? true