Sun Microsystems GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Manual page 34

Setting the local-mac-address Property
Note – Setting the local-mac-address property is required only if you will be
booting from the network.
The network interface of the Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination adapter
has been assigned a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address, which represents
the 48-bit Ethernet address for that interface. The OpenBoot firmware reports this
MAC address via the local-mac-address property in the device nodes
corresponding to the network 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 device driver, or any other adapter utility, can use the network device's MAC
address (local-mac-address) while configuring it. In the Solaris operating
environment, you can use the MAC address when booting over the network.
The mac-address property of the network device specifies the network address
(system-wide or local-mac-address) used for booting the system. To start using
the MAC address assigned to the network interface of the Sun GigabitEthernet
FC-AL/P Combination adapter, set the NVRAM configuration variable
local-mac-address? to true.
ok setenv local-mac-address? true
Rebooting the System
After verifying the adapter installation, use the boot -r command to perform a
reconfiguration boot on your system.
ok boot -r
16 Sun GigabitEthernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter Installation Guide • March 2000