Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:36:46 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <4.1.19990317093554.03e4dc60@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzpvhg0k5xw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Greg Lehey's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:12:49 %2B1030"> <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost> <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903161259420.19918-100000@thelab.hub.org> <xzpn21dkti8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990317124102.R429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316220756.00cc2340@localhost> <19990317155941.D429@lemis.com> <4.1.19990316223301.00b39760@localhost> <19990317161249.F429@lemis.com>
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At 07:04 AM 3/17/99 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >No, what he means is that 16 of the 48 bytes of the MAC are the vendor >code. But this is not relevant since the machine in question was an >x86, and the vendor code might be anything (or nothing at all). Actually, the IEEE still assigns ranges of Ethernet addresses to vendors in an attempt to avoid overlap between MAC addresses. It has nothing to do with the type of CPU.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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