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From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Ethernet MAC address question
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:58:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615095817.GA16523@projectcolo.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CE361A.9060707@pobox.com>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:34:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> However there are a few cases where some magic platform means loads the 
> MAC address into the (volatile) MAC address registers, and that's the 
> only source of an accurate MAC address for those people.

This is reasonably common on embedded systems - often there won't be
SEPROMs for individual devices and the MAC address will be stored in
flash or similar and read by the bootloader.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-14 22:02 Ethernet MAC address question Don Fry
2004-06-14 23:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-15  4:17   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2004-06-15  9:58   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2004-06-15 15:38     ` Don Fry
2004-06-15 16:11       ` Jeff Garzik

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