Hello Whoever , On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate authority in said case. Any solution which requires uniqueness also requires a singular ultimate authority. Even MACs aren't entirely unique. Some places used to assign MAC addresses like they assigned IP addresses and the NIC had to be reconfigured for the assigned MAC. An admin was freely able to assign a MAC to Joe Blow using a 3Com or Cisco OUI without fear of retribution. I
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 bdragon@gweep.net wrote: personally have never seen any use in such a thing but obviously someone did. Justin manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique. A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise using RFC1918 space. I have to agree with Mr. Shore here . Mac addresses are NOT unique from ALL manufacturers '.' . I do beleive that there was a a brand (maybe not USA) that the cadr came without mac-address hard assigned on the card , You HAD to , using their configuration tool assign one . JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+