From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: Ethernet MAC address question Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:58:17 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040615095817.GA16523@projectcolo.org.uk> References: <200406142202.i5EM2bh19464@localhost.localdomain> <40CE361A.9060707@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40CE361A.9060707@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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."