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From: Stephan van Hienen <ddx@cable.a2000.nl>
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:03:59 +0000
Subject: Re: 2 weird problems (first ethernet)
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On Wed, 13 May 1998, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Date: 	Thu, 14 May 1998 13:28:10 +1000
>    From: Grant Beattie <gb@zero.net.au>
> 
>    sparc systems have the hardware address burned into the PROM, not
>    the ethernet device. The behavior you're seeing is correct.
> 
> And furthermore if it is a problem, you can add args to ifconfig to
> set the ethernet address on each interface to whatever you like.
and what is this arg ?
and is it perm. ?
or do i have to tell it each time ?
(ps is there a way to do this on the boot prom?)