Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:10:22 -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: <4.1.19990317140757.03e94cf0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9903171450120.24999-100000@mercury.webnology .com> References: <4.1.19990317123427.03e49280@localhost>
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At 03:05 PM 3/17/99 -0600, Jasper O'Malley wrote: >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >> 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)? > >I hadn't heard that, but that would still mean 40-bit OUIs rather than >16-bit OUIs (a 16-bit OUI is "bigger" than a 24-bit OUI, in terms of >address space). No, I'm talking about the reverse -- giving smaller manufacturers less space. I haven't heard exactly how many bits they're giving them, but it makes sense -- there are sure to be fewer Sun workstations sold than NICs. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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