[Gllug] IP address detection

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tuesday 16 Nov 2004 10:50, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> >Bought a sparc 20 for a fiver on ebay (I know, I know, but it was just
> > five quid and it would make a good web server, honest).
>
> The sun boxes often have the mac addresses printed on the outside.
>
> You could possible manipulate your own arp table using arp -s to specify
> an IP address to communicate with the machine.
>
> I have bought a lot of sun kit from this fellow:
> http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/  he also sells on ebay and I bought a
> lovely external SCSI cdrom.  The sun box will boot from the CD ROM drive
> as long as it is set to ID 6.
>
I think I am going to have to look for my old null modem cable as trying to 
boot from the CD seems to make the box constantly reboot :(
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