Re: Ultra5 - Potato - Multiple HME Interfaces
Thanks much for the responses. My ignorance of Sun systems has been
exposed! Setting the new ether addr did the trick.
Dennis
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jay D Allen wrote:
> Suns have always done this (same MAC on all interfaces). It can confuse
> the hell out of an ethernet switch. Are both interfaces plugged into the
> same network? If so you need to select another MAC address. Just ifconfig
> in another ethernet address:
>
> ifconfig eth1 10.10.10.10 hw ether 00:10:5A:9E:9E:A4
>
> If each interface is on a different network (in the ethernet sense, can be
> connected by routers, but no switches or bridges) then it does not matter.
> If it _did_ matter, an awfull lot of firewalls would stop working. :)
>
> Jay D. Allen
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>
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