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Re: Ethernet MAC address question

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Subject: Re: Ethernet MAC address question
From: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:58:17 +0100
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:34:50PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> However there are a few cases where some magic platform means loads the 
> MAC address into the (volatile) MAC address registers, and that's the 
> only source of an accurate MAC address for those people.

This is reasonably common on embedded systems - often there won't be
SEPROMs for individual devices and the MAC address will be stored in
flash or similar and read by the bootloader.

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