31 Oct
2005
31 Oct
'05
6:24 a.m.
>>>> "arcarlini" == arcarlini
<a.carlini at ntlworld.com> writes:
arcarlini> Adrian Graham wrote:
> 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.
arcarlini> I have some DE500-something-or-other PCI ethernet cards
arcarlini> that use 00-00-F8 so they are definitely pre-Cabletron and
arcarlini> pre-HP and (IIRC) pre-COMPAQ.
That fits; the 00-00-F8 OUI was issued to DEC when it was still DEC --
maybe around 1992 or so. That was during the time when FDDI
development was going fast and furious (i.e., before Fast Ethernet
really took hold).
I had forgotten about MAC address assignments from that block. But it
makes sense; large chunks of the 08-00-2B block had already been
issued, and it may have been some specialized assignment. I no longer
have the address database file (left that at DEC, it wasn't a public
database...)
paul