Sun Microsystems Sun Quad - Manual (Page 32)

18 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997
local-mac-address Property
Each of the network interfaces of the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter have been
assigned a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address, which represents the 48-bit
ethernet address for that 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 the Solaris 2.6 operating
system (and later Solaris revisions), you will be able to use a 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 interfaces of the Sun Quad FastEthernet
PCI adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable
local-mac-address? to
true .
ok setenv local-mac-address? true