Chapter 2
Installing the Adapter
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13. Type the following when you finish looking at the
.properties
values:
Setting the
local-mac-address?
Variable
Note –
Enabling the
local-mac-address?
variable is only required if you boot
from the network.
Every Sun Dual Gigabit Ethernet and Dual SCSI/P adapter comes with two unique
media access control (MAC) addresses that represent the 48-bit Ethernet address for
that interface.
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
local-mac-address?
variable of the network device specifies the network
address (system-wide or
local-mac-address?
) used for booting the system. If the
local-mac-address?
NVRAM variable is set to
true
the system will set the MAC
address for the network interfaces of the Sun Dual Gigabit Ethernet and Dual SCSI/
P adapter to be the addresses provided by the adapter. If this variable is set to
false
, the system will set the MAC address for both of the adapter’s network
interfaces to be the same as the system MAC address.
To start using the MAC address assigned to the network interface of the Sun Dual
Gigabit Ethernet and Dual SCSI/P adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable
local-mac-address?
to
true
.
▼
To Set the Gigabit Ethernet Device as the Primary Boot
Device
Use this procedure only if you want the Gigabit Ethernet device to be your primary
boot device.
ok device-end
ok setenv local-mac-address? true
