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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECNET MAC address use query
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.025835.759@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 02:58:35 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.125106.18326@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <12925@blia.BLI.COM> <1990Nov12.155501.23342@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <273F4A7D.27274@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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In article <273F4A7D.27274@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
> In article <1990Nov12.155501.23342@gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>>We also hear rumours that AA-00-04-... machines may under some
>>circumstances use AA-00-03-<same thing>.
> 
> I've never seen this - maybe a DEC expert knows?

  Who, me? Well, if you insist...

  AA-00-03-... is the hardware address on the older DEC interfaces, such as
the DEUNA. It is changed to AA-00-04-... when DECnet is started, just as on
the other boards. I don't know why DEC changed to 08-00-2B-... when they came
out with the newer interfaces. Perhaps people were being confused by the -03-
vs. -04-?

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