From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 8 17:13:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28ADB37B483 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:12:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g191CGp37888; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:12:16 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru> References: <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:12:15 -0500 To: "Vladislav V. Anikiev" , "Brian Reichert" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: MAC address Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:10 AM +0300 2/9/02, Vladislav V. Anikiev wrote: > Hello Brian, > > The MAC address - I meen The Media Access Control address (i.e., ethernet >hardware address, not IP address). I want to use the default hardware (not >current physical ) address in my license management software. > > Why did you write: "Depending on the NIC". The NIC means Network >Information Center. Doesn't it ? This is a case of TOL (TLA OverLoad)... (TLA = Three-Letter Acronyms) NIC can also mean Network Interface Card, and each card will (hopefully) have it's own unique MAC address. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message