On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:16:50 -0400, "Michael Kennedy"
wrote:

I've read that it is possible to use an ethernet card to write eproms. I
havn't found much via search engine and was wondering if anybody here knows
if it is possible and what cards will work...

Partially true.

In the old days, some brands of NICs would, after minor
modification, allow for an EPROM in the bootprom socket to be
programmed.

This 'feature' was mainly used to reprogram EEPROMS from early
EEPROM bios motherboards.
(Current motherboards use EEPROM chips that simply don't fit
anymore :-)

One other thing you may have read: any NIC contains some
exclusive data, mainly it's MAC address.
On some boards, this can be reprogrammed.
But there is hardly any need to reprogram it at all.
And in the rare cases where it is desirable, spoofing the MAC
address is much easier.

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok