Sun Microsystems Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter 805-1759-10 - Manual (Page 27)

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5. Type:
6. Reboot your system.
Refer to the Platform Notes: The hme Fast Ethernet Device Driver document for more
information on the
hme device driver and forcing network speed. This document is
also available on the Solaris AnswerBook.
Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter’s
local-mac-address Property
The network interface of the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter is assigned a unique
MAC (Media Access Control) address, which represents the 48-bit ethernet address
for the channel. The OpenBoot™ firmware reports this MAC address via the
local-mac-address property in the device nodes corresponding to the network
interfaces.
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 future Solaris releases, you
will be able to use the channel's 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 addresses assigned to the network interface of the Sun FastEthernet PCI
Adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable
local-mac-address? to true .
ok nvstore
ok setenv use-nvramrc? true
ok setenv local-mac-address? true