30 Oct
2005
30 Oct
'05
2:36 p.m.
On 30/10/05 22:07, "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
Some NICs were capable of keeping their
"real" MAC address alive at
the same time, which was good for LAT; others would use this LAA for
all traffic, which meant you had to be sure to turn DECnet on before
LAT.
Wish I'd had an english pound for every time I came across a site with that
problem after an administrator had 'tidied' SYSTARTUP_V(whatever).COM 'to
make it run faster'. Marvellous :)
DEC also owned OUI 00-00-F8 but I don't know if
that was ever used for
MAC addresses; it did get used for 802.2 SNAP protocol identifiers for
bridging from FDDI to Ethernet, in a very confusing and strange
story...
Yep, we look after a national chain's DEC kit and DECservers from the later
years of DEC have 00-00-F8 as the mac address, I think it might've been once
the networking side had been sold to Cabletron but don't quote me on that.
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