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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> Some versions of Solaris with some NICs (definitely Solaris 8 with
> Cassini NICs) associate a MAC address with the host, rather than the
> NIC.  I'm less certain of the rationale for this.

Traditionally, Sun boxen had 48-bit serial numbers which they used as
MAC addresses on all interfaces.  I believe this MAC-per-host setup is
what the Ethernet inventors originally intended.

Sun now uses off-the-shelf components to a much larger degree than
they used to, so most of their stuff is now MAC-per-interface.

DES
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