unable to assign unique mac address from ifconfig

["Cormac J. Mannion" <cormac_(_at_)_posixnap_(_dot_)_net>]

>Synopsis:      unable to assign unique mac address from ifconfig
>Severity:      non-critical
>Priority:      high
>Category:      Ultra 1 Enterprise
>Class:         sw-bug
>Release:       3.4 release
>Environment:
        System      : OpenBSD 3.4
        Architecture: OpenBSD.sparc64
        Machine     : sparc64
>Description:
        I have set local-mac-addresses? to true in OpenBoot, and reasonably expe
cted that `ifconfig hme0 address 0a:0:20:a8:00:01` would be sufficient to assign
 a unique MAC address to the onboard ethernet adapter for 192.168.0.1. The outpu
t from the above command is 'ifconfig: address: bad value'
>How-To-Repeat:
        ifconfig address properly:formatted:mac:address::
        (relevant only if local-mac-addresses is set to true in openboot, if I u
nderstand correctly)
>Fix:
	<unknown>

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