Leo Bicknell wrote: > * Users wish to replace a card but have it use the same MAC > address due to filters, static arp entries, caches that take too > long to expire, bootp entries that are based on MAC address, etc. > For years cards had the MAC in a separate ROM to make this possible > with a chip swap too.
I forgot this one. Mostly, though, this is done for licensing software that uses the MAC as the machine serial number. Lot of code does that on Windows... and not a little code on UNIX. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
