From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: timothy.covell@ashavan.org
Cc: zhengpei@msu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:28:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020111.042844.70219945.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201111224.g0BCOYSr001179@svr3.applink.net>
In-Reply-To: <200201111159.g0BBxCSr001144@svr3.applink.net> <20020111.040715.48529485.davem@redhat.com> <200201111224.g0BCOYSr001179@svr3.applink.net>
From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:20:42 -0600
True. I was assuming that the context of the post was
that the NICs were on the same network link.
I didn't catch that bit.
Solaris _defaults_ to using the MAC address from the
primary (hostname) NIC for the rest of them.
This has nothing to do with Solaris, it has to do with
open firmware variable settings. If there is a 'local-mac-address'
property in the device node for the ethernet card, that is what
the drivers use. Otherwise they use the "host MAC".
If you look, this is what we do under Linux on Sparc too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-11 4:19 Pei Zheng
2002-01-11 5:20 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 11:55 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-11 19:02 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 19:24 ` Paul Walmsley
2002-01-11 22:51 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-12 21:37 ` Prof. Brand
2002-01-12 21:58 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 12:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-11 12:20 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-12 21:37 ` Prof. Brand
2002-01-12 21:44 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 12:28 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-01-11 19:33 ` Pei Zheng
2002-01-14 6:32 Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-14 7:41 ` Bernd Eckenfels
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