[coreboot] MCP55 Mac Address copying/change

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 23:11:29 CET 2010


> > > Is there any fast method to read the onboards NIC mac address
> "faster"?
> >
> > ip l sh eth0|grep link/ether|awk '{print $2}'
> I know that this is possible via commands on the shell, but you can't be
> sure
> that you select the onboard NIC with that method, because when a second
> NIC is
> used in that board on PCI this one could also be eth0, and therefore you
> could
> end up with the wrong one getting copied.

I thought you could tell the vendor by looking at the MAC Address.

Thanks,
Myles





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