8 Apr
2005
8 Apr
'05
6:04 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:00 -0500, Scott Stevens wrote:
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Or you can find some ancient 3Com NIC, say a 3c503 or the like, 'retire'
it and and steal it's MAC address. Best practice, of course, is to know
the original MAC address to replace.
If there's FlexLM (Elan?) licensed software on the machine, (and you can
get it booted) you can usually look at the appropriate license.dat file,
note the HostID in the file, and then use that to generate the ethernet
address, as (IIRC) on older Sun's the ethernet address is:
8:0:20:aa:bb:cc where '80aabbcc' is the hostid.
(YMMV, as my memory has faded somewhat, but it does pan out on the few
SS-5/Ultra5 class machines I just verified it on)
David