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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman 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 References: <DERAADT.93Mar26160807@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Mar29.142429.12369@cm.cf.ac.uk> <C4p1t8.7GF@agora.rain.com> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility Lines: 18 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 -- 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