Higher Intellect | preterhuman.net
Discussion => Computing, Internet & Technology => Topic started by: netfreak on November 25, 2017, 12:34:42 am
-
(https://preterhuman.net/pics/sgi_eaddr_error.jpg)
I ran into this error trying to run setenv on my SGI Indy to a MAC within the standard SGI pool 08:00:69:x:x:x as I suspected this is why my onboard ec0 network adapter was not visible in IRIX. Turns out the MAC shown was for a secondary network card in the system (ec2) and it was causing IRIX to throw an invalid MAC warning during boot.
I'm not sure if there's a way around this in order to keep the second NIC in the system, but I simply removed it which allowed ec0 to show up in IRIX again. No more invalid MAC warning during boot and I could throw an IP on ec0 and ping things.