Sun Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter manual Setting the local-mac-address Property

The phy-typevalue is assigned as follows:

Media type phy-type

Fiberpcs

Coppermif

Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-addressproperty, note the local-mac-addressof your device at this time. See “Setting the local-mac- address Property” on page 17 for more information.

Setting the local-mac-addressProperty

Note – Setting the local-mac-addressproperty is required only if you will be booting from the network.

The network interface of the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapter has been assigned a unique media access control (MAC) address that represents the 48- bit Ethernet address for that interface. The OpenBoot firmware reports this MAC address by means of the local-mac-addressproperty in the device nodes corresponding to the network interface.

A system does not always 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 the Solaris Operating System, you can use the MAC address when booting over the network.

The mac-addressproperty of the network device specifies the network address (system-wide or local-mac-address) used for booting the system. To start using the MAC address assigned to the network interface of the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable local-mac-address?to true.

ok setenv local-mac-address? true

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