ifconfig hme0 ether 0:1:2:3:4:5
ifconfig hme1 ehter 0:1:2:3:4:6

etc.

good luck,

James

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:57:58AM -0400, George Monappallil wrote:
> Well not really. If the the "local mac address" flag in the OBP is set to false, then the multiple Ethernet cards on the system will use the system wide mac address. The problem I had before is that I had trouble assigning a unique mac address to each of a quad interfaces even when the eeprom parameter of  "local mac address" is set to true. I should have worded the email right.
> 
> George Monappallil 
> Unix Sys. Admin. 
> Newsedge Corp. 
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>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atul Gore [mailto:atulgore@...> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: George.Monappallil@...
> Subject: Re: unique mac address
> 
> 
> George:
> Normally  ethernet cards do have a unique address. so .. I am not sure what exactly is your question.
> 
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> ________________________________________
> Best Regards... 
> ... Atul 
> ----Original Message Follows---- 
> From: George Monappallil 
> To: "'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'" ,"'isp-solaris@isp-solaris.com'" 
> Subject: unique mac address 
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:47:38 -0400 
> 
> Hi all: 
> I have a 420R with one quad ethernet card. I would like each of the interfaces on the quad cards to have unique mac addresses. Is there a way I can do this? Your help is higly appreciated. Thanks in advance 
> 
> George Monappallil 
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> Newsedge Corp. 
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