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Re: [FW1] FW: Firewall-1 and Sun Issue



SUN follows the RFC -- which defines a unique MAC
address per host, NOT per NIC.
Hence -- the same MAC on all interfaces. This is why
:)

But, you can make you're own individual up as Jason
says below.

Good Luck -- cf

--- Jason Witty <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Tim,
> 
> It shouldn't, but if you truly want to rule it out,
> you can try setting
> "local-mac-address?" to TRUE in the Boot PROM (at
> system boot-up or by
> using the eeprom command.)
> 
> example% eeprom "local-mac-address?"=true ; reboot
> 
> Jason
> 
> Tim Parker wrote:
> > 
> > Jason -- would it matter if there was an interface
> that ran into a hub above
> > a pair of bigIP boxes and then another interface
> that ran into a hub behind
> > the bigIP's?
> > 
> > We are running into licensing problems that I am
> trying to work with some
> > consultants and Checkpoint on to find the answer
> and I am grasping for
> > answers!!
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Witty [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:13 AM
> > To: John Bumgarner
> > Cc: Fw-1-Mailinglist (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [FW1] FW: Firewall-1 and Sun Issue
> > 
> > That's always the case with Sun Quad cards.  There
> is an EPROM variable
> > you can set to force it to use unique addresses,
> but it really doesn't
> > make any difference, so long as no two interfaces
> are ever plugged into
> > the same physical network segment....
> > 
> > > John Bumgarner wrote:
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Bumgarner
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:31 AM
> > > To: Majordomo Firewall-1 (E-mail)
> > > Subject: Firewall-1 and Sun Issue
> > >
> > > *** PGP Signature Status: good
> > > *** Signer: John Bumgarner
> <[email protected]>
> > > *** Signed: 1/3/2001 9:32:29 AM
> > > *** Verified: 1/3/2001 10:01:42 AM
> > > *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE ***
> > >
> > > To the list,
> > >
> > > I recently installed Version 4.0 on a Sun 220
> running Solaris 7.
> > > This was a fresh install of Solaris.  The
> install was a core, which
> > > was than reduced to only 21 packages.  The issue
> is the interface's
> > > MAC addresses.  All the MAC addresses are the
> same, but the firewall
> > > still functions correctly.  Has anyone every
> seen this on a firewall?
> > >
> > > # ifconfig -a
> > > lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
> mtu 8232
> > >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> > > ge0:
> flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
> > >         inet <IP ADDRESS> netmask <NETMASK
> ADDRESS> broadcast <IP
> > > ADDRESS>
> > >         ether 8:0:20:e5:c0:f7
> > > hme0:
> flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
> > >         inet <IP ADDRESS> netmask  <NETMASK
> ADDRESS> broadcast <IP
> > > ADDRESS>
> > >         ether 8:0:20:e5:c0:f7
> > > qfe0:
> flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
> > >         inet <IP ADDRESS> netmask  <NETMASK
> ADDRESS> broadcast <IP
> > > ADDRESS>
> > >         ether 8:0:20:e5:c0:f7
> > > qfe1:
> flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST>
> mtu 1500
> > >         inet <IP ADDRESS>  netmask  <NETMASK
> ADDRESS> broadcast <IP
> > > ADDRESS>
> > >         ether 8:0:20:e5:c0:f7
> > >
> > > John Bumgarner
> > >
> > > *** END PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE ***
> > 
> >
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