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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:58:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] native install
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> > > Is ea= supposed to be set to the actual ip address (the man page says physical
> > > network adress)? If so that's probably my problem.
> >
> > ea is supposed to be an ethernet address.  ethernet
> > addresses have the format
> > 	ea=112233445566
> > where 1-6 are *lowercase* hex digits.  the first
> > byte & 0x80 should be 0.
> >
> > - erik
> >
> Sorry for my ignorance, but how would I find out the ethernet address(es)?

the hardware is supposed to know it.  if it doesn't the hardware
is having trouble talking to its eeprom/flash.  in this case, you
can get by by making one up.  though officially, they're allocated
in blocks,  c.f. etheroui(1), wwnoui(1) — contrib quanstro/oui.
the database is in /lib/oui.

- erik