Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) writes:
> > Actually, I think Red Hat should fix their network scripts to do this. That is,
> > configure the card based on the MAC address and not the kernel number.
>
> MAC address does not have to be unique per card. On older Sparcs for example
> its unique per host which rather ruins the idea.
Didn't IBM make Ethernet cards with programmable MAC addresses at one time?
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