Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MIT-MULTICS.ARPA!Petty
From: Petty@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: ARP over FDDI
Message-ID: <871105210734.397661@MIT-Multics.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 16:07:00 EST
Article-I.D.: MIT-Mult.871105210734.397661
Posted: Thu Nov  5 16:07:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Nov-87 02:50:40 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 16

Hello

I am new to the network.  If this topic has already been addressed, I
aplologize in advance.

I am curious if anyone has thought about using ARP over an FDDI
network?  It seems like a match made in UCBerkeley.  The problem
as I see it, is that FDDI can have either 16 or 48 bit addresses.
If the gurus of FDDI who hand out the numbers would ensure that
the first 32 bits of a 48 bit hardware address were non-zero,
then life would be good.

Thanks in advance.

Jim Petty
Spartacus Inc.