installing new ethernet address equipment with VMS 6.1

[Adrian Graham]

On 30/10/05 23:03, "a.carlini at ntlworld.com" <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:

> I have some DE500-something-or-other PCI ethernet cards that use
> 00-00-F8 so they are definitely pre-Cabletron and pre-HP and (IIRC)
> pre-COMPAQ. Anyway, the DECservers followed some strange circuitous
> route that took them to DNPG (and have now drifted off to
> someone else). They did (I think) briefly live inside Cabletron, but
> only while they were looking for somewhere to send them :-)

Really? I happened across the DNPG website a couple of weeks ago and the
DECserver side of things was still in evidence, though I guess it may have
featured under the awful 'legacy' word. One of our customers suddenly
decided their 100% uptime Alpha 1000A system was legacy and would be
replaced 'within 2 months'. Yeah, right.

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