From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 17 11:41: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAD31539E for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:41:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA05454; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:40:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990317123427.03e49280@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:35:53 -0700 To: "Jasper O'Malley" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Greg Lehey , The Hermit Hacker , Mark Ovens , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990317093554.03e4dc60@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:54 PM 3/17/99 -0600, Jasper O'Malley wrote: >It's a semantic point, but the IEEE assigns Organizationally Unique >Identifiers, which are 24-bit (not 16-bit) identification numbers that >most network equipment manufacturers use for the first 24 bits of the MAC >address on the equipment they sell. The OUI can and is used for other >things, and lazy/sleazy NIC manufacturers use MAC addresses that have >nothing to do with an OUI. Didn't they began cutting 16-bit slices out of the bigger 24-bit ones to accommodate manufacturers with lower production volumes (and to avoid running out of address space as the Internet is)? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message