As sth...@nethelp.no wrote ... > > Things like DECnet set the MAC address. Don't ask me why though. > > Because there is a one to one correspondence between the DECnet (Phase > IV) address and the MAC address. Ie. if you specify the DECnet address, > you have also implicitly specified the MAC address.
Ah, that rings a (faint) bell. I only remember because it bit a colleague of mine once. They had a machine sitting behind a bridge and assumed that would keep their traffic local. Did not work too well because the bridge had been programmed to block the default MAC address, and not the one that DECnet made out of it. | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
