29 Aug
2001
29 Aug
'01
2:10 p.m.
At 10:39 AM 8/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
Of course you'd have to pay them: they have to take
a # from
from their database, update their mfg systems, mail you a
MAC address label...it's a service ans you should expect to pay!
IEEE charges about 3KU$ for a range of MAC addresses and entry.
Hmmm, could it be because they should have coded the HostID into something
OTHER than a NVRAM that they knew would lose it's battery
eventually??? it's just a method to make a few extra bucks to them.
Of course there's also the fact that Sun is using a location in the NVRAM
that is not in the manufacturers spec so if you get a current rev 48tXX
chip to use in your sun, the OBP(bios) complains about a bad NVRAM chip
:(:(:( ST Microelectronics recently redid the timekeeper chips using a
smaller die, and in doing so, recoded them to operate exactly to what the
published spec has always said.. Sun uses a non-documented location in the
nvram for some of it's power-on tests so that now fails with the
timekeepers that are 100% specification compliant.