[Re: [nsp] 2950 & vlans]

[Tim Franklin]

cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:

> switch is a 2950 (12.1(13)EA1) - reagarding the server...it appears to
> have a common mac (@#!^&*$%#@), i hadn't noticed that before you
> mentioned it.  the switch sees that mac in vlan10 (inside vlan) - i am
> looking through cisco.com to find out if it can handle a common mac.
> i am also looking to see if i can get debian to use different mac
> addresses on the interfaces (silly sun hardware) - i don't have any
> port security enabled on the ports (it doesn't even appear to be
> available in this version)

This is standard behaviour for Suns.  You can fix it with:

setenv local-mac-address? true

at the OpenBoot prompt.  This forces each interface to come up with a unique MAC address, rather than all of them using the NVRAM/HostID-supplied one.

Regards,
Tim.

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