Thanks for everybody who responded, here is the list:
Christopher L. Barnard
Marco Greene
Peter Laws
David Staggs
Sean Quaint
The response was that it could be the bad battery in the NVRAM.
Marco Green pointed me to sun-nvram-hostid.faq which available at:
* ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/sun-nvram-hostid.faq
* http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq
This faq answers every questions I had and I should be able to solve my
problem, thanks!
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Here is my original posting:
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Deepak Sinha wrote:
>
> Hi Sun Managers,
> When I reboot my sparc 20, I get diagnostic of invalid IPprom content and
> the Ethernet address is showing up as all 0's i.e. 00:00:00:00:00:00.
>
> Is there a way I can assign this to a valid address, (I know the original
> address) ? Or the solution is to replace the IDprom?
>
> Thanks,
> Deepak
>
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