Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:35:53 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, 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: <4.1.19990317123427.03e49280@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9903171251310.23070-100000@mercury.webnology .com> References: <4.1.19990317093554.03e4dc60@localhost>
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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
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