28 Aug
2001
28 Aug
'01
8:53 a.m.
--- David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> wrote:
! I've got an SS1 with a dead NVRAM chip...
! ...Providing I use the Sun "standard" of 08:00:20 as the first three
! bytes of the MAC address, is there any real issue with me
! choosing a random value for the last three bytes?
Not unless you have some licensed software locked to a particular ID, no.
The only possible problem is if you guess a number that matches another
Sun on your network and you'll have all sorts of fun.
You might want to check out this web page...
"SUN NVRAM/hostid FAQ"
http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html
..it talks about how to change the MAC address, as well as changing the
battery in the NVRAM chip. I haven't tried resetting the MAC addresses on
my 2 SparcStation 1+ and SparcStation 2 yet, haven't had the chance.
I've done it for every sun4c machine I've ever had. At one point, I
had a regular expression to grep out six letter words from /usr/dict/words
with a-f and perhaps i and o. There are a couple more than c0ffee, but
that's the canonical one from the NVRAM FAQ.
-ethan
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