local-mac-address Property

Each of the network interfaces of the Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus adapter have been assigned a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address, which represents the 48-bit ethernet address for that channel. The OpenBoot firmware reports this MAC address via the local-mac-address property in the device nodes corresponding to the network interfaces.

A system is not obligated to use this assigned MAC address if it has a system-wide MAC address. In such cases, the system-wide MAC address applies to all network interfaces on the system.

The device driver, or any other adapter utility, can use the network device's MAC address (local-mac-address) while configuring it. In future versions of the operating system, you will be able to use a channel's MAC address when booting over the network.

The mac-address property of the network device specifies the network address (system-wide or local-mac-address) used for booting the system. To start using the MAC addresses assigned to the network interfaces of the Sun Quad FastEthernet SBus adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable local-mac-address? to true.

ok setenv local-mac-address? true