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From: perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Software assigned Ethernet Addresses
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.193904.15084@kth.se>
Date: 10 Aug 90 19:39:04 GMT
References: <119@mytardis.UUCP>
Reply-To: perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <119@mytardis.UUCP> jb@mytardis.UUCP (John Bartas) writes:
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>.. build an ethernet board without an address prom and assign the
> address via software,.... no one else that I knew of did it.

There is a norwegian company that does this. On the other hand, they only
make large mini-computers, so every computer has a individual system number.
This gives two bytes in the ethernet address. The last is pointing out the
number of cards in the machine. So there is no problems exchanging a broken
card, which is probably the main reason to do this. ( ethernet does not
imply IP, not that John claimed so, but to save others the time of a posting)

Per
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