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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psgrain!percy!agora!rgrimes From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) Subject: Re: Verifying Ethernet cards by Vendor ID Message-ID: <C4r8wr.JyD@agora.rain.com> Organization: Open Communications Forum References: <DERAADT.93Mar26160807@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Mar29.142429.12369@cm.cf.ac.uk> <C4p1t8.7GF@agora.rain.com> <1993Mar30.195823.2544@uvm.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 13:17:13 GMT Lines: 33 wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes: >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. Humm, why do I have to send my $1000.00 to Xerox every time I buy a new chunk of numbers. You may be right about the IEEE having a non public list. And I don't know if Xerox will give you one, I had one once that was supplied by Excelan, but it had a Xerox copyright on it. I'm going to dig into this one and see if I can find a "public" or low cost copy. >-GAWollman >-- >Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... >wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. >uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people >UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@agora.rain.com Accurate Automation Company All opinions belong to me and my company! Get your free copy of 386bsd from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD via ftp! An out of work contractor... You need unix work done.... Send me your project!