installing new ethernet address equipment with VMS 6.1

[Adrian Graham]

On 30/10/05 22:07, "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

> Some NICs were capable of keeping their "real" MAC address alive at
> the same time, which was good for LAT; others would use this LAA for
> all traffic, which meant you had to be sure to turn DECnet on before
> LAT.

Wish I'd had an english pound for every time I came across a site with that
problem after an administrator had 'tidied' SYSTARTUP_V(whatever).COM 'to
make it run faster'. Marvellous :)
 
> DEC also owned OUI 00-00-F8 but I don't know if that was ever used for
> MAC addresses; it did get used for 802.2 SNAP protocol identifiers for
> bridging from FDDI to Ethernet, in a very confusing and strange
> story...

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.

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