installing new ethernet address equipment with VMS 6.1

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "arcarlini" == arcarlini  <a.carlini at ntlworld.com> writes:

 arcarlini> Adrian Graham wrote:
 >> 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.

 arcarlini> I have some DE500-something-or-other PCI ethernet cards
 arcarlini> that use 00-00-F8 so they are definitely pre-Cabletron and
 arcarlini> pre-HP and (IIRC) pre-COMPAQ.

That fits; the 00-00-F8 OUI was issued to DEC when it was still DEC --
maybe around 1992 or so.  That was during the time when FDDI
development was going fast and furious (i.e., before Fast Ethernet
really took hold).

I had forgotten about MAC address assignments from that block.  But it
makes sense; large chunks of the 08-00-2B block had already been
issued, and it may have been some specialized assignment.  I no longer
have the address database file (left that at DEC, it wasn't a public
database...) 

	     paul