Date: 17 Mar 1999 07:04:27 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <xzpvhg0k5xw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:12:49 %2B1030" References: <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost> <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903161259420.19918-100000@thelab.hub.org> <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990317124102.R429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost> <19990317155941.D429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316223301.00b39760@localhost> <19990317161249.F429@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 22:33:40 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 03:59 PM 3/17/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Ethernet addresses are 48 bits long. You'll also note DES's original > > > question. > > So, add the vendor code (which is the same on all Suns).... > That would make it longer, not shorter. The number we had it 32 bits > long. No, what he means is that 16 of the 48 bytes of the MAC are the vendor code. But this is not relevant since the machine in question was an x86, and the vendor code might be anything (or nothing at all). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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