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From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Verifying Ethernet cards by Vendor ID
Message-ID: <1993Mar30.195823.2544@uvm.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 93 19:58:23 GMT
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In article <C4p1t8.7GF@agora.rain.com> rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) writes:
>You simple need to get the table from Xerox and see what official
>numbers are assigned to DANPLEX or ATT and fail the probe if it does
>not match.

The ``table'' belongs to the IEEE Standards Office, and last I checked
it's *not* public information.  My copy of ``assigned numbers''
includes an incomplete list based on watching network traffic on a
large number of Ethernets to see who is sending packets with what
addresses.

-GAWollman

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