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Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"?
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At 07:04 AM 3/17/99 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 
>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).

Actually, the IEEE still assigns ranges of Ethernet addresses to vendors
in an attempt to avoid overlap between MAC addresses. It has nothing to
do with the type of CPU....

--Brett



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