Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet protocol codes
Message-ID: <627@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 16:55:43 GMT
References: <110@ftp.COM>
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Lines: 24
Keywords: protocol, type, multicast

In article <110@ftp.COM> nancy@ftp.COM (Nancy Connor) writes:
>Thanks to everyone who sent me updates for the Ethernet protocol code
>table.  If there is enough interest, I can post my revised version of
>the table.

I would like to see it posted: we do not have anonymous FTP access
across to the US of A.

One thing which worried me was that we wanted a set of types for our
own internal use. We chose the 5000 to 52ff range: FTP's list shows that
one of these is apparently spoken for. Does anyone know if there is a
range reserved for local use?

On the same subject, I always encourage people to use multicast addresses,
not the broadcast address. Who hands out multicast addresses, what are the
currently assigned ones and what are the variable fields in those that
are assigned (e.g. the LAVC cluster number used by DEC)? Is much the same
problem when we are writing our own software packages. Clearly, I know a
few already in use.
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