From efd52d96bd7454745fe2c2c7e5dac03abb9cf178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Pizzolato <mark@infocomm.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:36:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ETHER: Explicitly allow MAC address to be the host interface
 MAC address

A warning will be issued unless an attach is done with the -Q switch.
---
 sim_ether.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sim_ether.c b/sim_ether.c
index fe612e88..ffdc75ed 100644
--- a/sim_ether.c
+++ b/sim_ether.c
@@ -2609,6 +2609,11 @@ return SCPE_OK;
 t_stat eth_check_address_conflict (ETH_DEV* dev, 
                                    ETH_MAC* const mac)
 {
+char mac_string[32];
+
+eth_mac_fmt(mac, mac_string);
+if (0 == memcmp (mac, dev->host_nic_phy_hw_addr, sizeof *mac))
+    return sim_messagef (SCPE_OK, "Sharing the host NIC MAC address %s may cause unexpected behavior\n", mac_string);
 return eth_check_address_conflict_ex (dev, mac, NULL, FALSE);
 }