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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:29:55 -0600
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Intel motherboard "Ethernet console"
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At 12:50 AM 4/17/2002, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
  
>It wouldn't be LAT; if it was DEC flavored it would be MOP-RC.  :)

Well, whatever it is, it's likely to be right on the MAC layer.
And since there doesn't seem to be a place to tell the motherboard
the MAC address, it must either discover the console's MAC address
or use (shudder!) broadcast packets for everything. 

--Brett Glass


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