- Sun Installation and User's Guide GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 13
Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-address? variable, note the local
MAC address of your device at this time. See “Setting the local-mac-address?
Variable” on page 13 for more information.
5. 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. Setting the local-mac-address? variable is not supported in
systems running Solaris 9 x86 software.
Every Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter comes with a unique media access control
(MAC) address that represents the 48-bit Ethernet address for that interface.
A system with a a system-wide MAC address is not obligated to use this assigned
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 sets the MAC
address for the network interface of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter to be the
address provided by the adapter. If this variable is set to false, the system sets the
MAC address for the adapter’s network interface to be the same as the system MAC
address.
To start using the MAC address assigned to the network interface of the Sun
GigaSwift Ethernet 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