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Subject: Re: need ethernet hardware address on mvII
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newark@befvax.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>I have a microvax II with a delqua card that I need to find the
>ethernet hardware address for (in order to boot it in to my cluster)
>
>It seems that the 
>
>>>> show ether
>
>command doesn't work on a microvax II (this is the first one I've had to 
>deal with).  The address does not seem to be printed on the board itself
>anywhere either (or is it?) 
>
>Could someone please enlighten me with a procedure of finding said address
>out?
>

i got the following off comp.os.vms two years ago:

From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Organization: Micrognosis, London, UK

[...]

MicroVAX / VAXstation II:
>>>B/100 XQ
Bootfile: READ_ADDR

MicroVAX / VAXstation 2000:
>>> T 53
2?>>> 3				3?>>> <just hit return>
>>> B/100 ES
Bootfile: READ_ADDR

MicroVAX / VAXstation 3xxx:
>>> SHOW ETHERNET

VAXstation 8000:
>>> E/P/1 2000c218
    xxxxxxxx		! Top 48 bits, LSB is MSB of address
>>> E/P/1 2000c21c
    xxxxxxxx		! Bottom 16 bits, MSB is LSB of address

 Phone: +44 71 528 8282  E-mail: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk
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