23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
7:15 a.m.
On 22 Aug, Gene Buckle wrote:
Has anyone ever decoded the Sun barcodes and system serial numbers to
figure out what their scheme is on the original id's?
Why they won't make that available is beyond me.
Bill
--
Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a
villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org
I've got an SS1 with a dead NVRAM chip. From
the FAQs I've read, it's
trivial to set the MAC address after the chip dies and it's set to
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
It is even trivial to replace the dead battery inside the
chip, if you
know where and how to open it...
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?
Just use random bytes. That is
what I did. But of course be sure that
there is no other machine on your network with that value...
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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