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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:12:15 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Vladislav V. Anikiev" <vladani@mail.spbnit.ru>, "Brian Reichert" <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MAC address
Message-ID:  <p0510141db88a27751a91@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru>
References:  <200202090052.DAA62563@neo.spbnit.ru>

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At 4:10 AM +0300 2/9/02, Vladislav V. Anikiev wrote:
>  Hello Brian,
>
>   The MAC address - I meen The Media Access Control address (i.e., ethernet
>hardware address, not IP address). I want to use the default hardware (not
>current physical ) address in my license management software.
>
>   Why did you write: "Depending on the NIC". The NIC means Network
>Information Center. Doesn't it ?

This is a case of TOL  (TLA OverLoad)...
                        (TLA = Three-Letter Acronyms)

NIC can also mean Network Interface Card, and each card will (hopefully)
have it's own unique MAC address.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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