[Info-vax] tcpip gateway question

[sapienzaf]

On Sep 15, 8:39 am, jbriggs444 <jbriggs... at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the typical environment there's no such concept.  The NIC is set to
> use the DECnet modified MAC address very early in the boot process.
> The network never sees any other MAC address.  As far as the network
> is concerned, the DECnet MAC address is the machine's true MAC
> address.
>

Not correct.

In the case of an OpenVMS cluster satellite booting over the network
interface, the initial MOP requests use the physical MAC associated
with the network adapter.  After OpenVMS has booted and DECnet is
started the MAC address is changed to the DECnet form.

So the network switch/router can see a change in MAC address.