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From: kenbo@Nickel.NTT.JP (Kenichiro Murakami)
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Subject: Re: Allocation of Ethernet Addresses to Vendors
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Date: 31 May 89 08:35:38 GMT
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Joe and Peter,

>       Fujitsu-Xerox has vendor id 08-00-37-xx-xx-xx.

It seems you are confused by the similar name. Fuji-Xerox has
the address. Fuji-Xerox sells Xerox products in Japan.
Fujitsu is one of the major mainframe manufactulars in Japan. 
They have the address 00:00:0E:XX:XX:XX.
However, they violate the rule based on the 
IEEE 48bit globally assigned address. They use their local address rather than
the global address. To correct the problem, we requested them to
store the unique address in ROM on each ethernet interface. ROM provides
fail safe mechanism.
Until they correct the problem, we will continue to reject their
ethernet products.

-Ken

        Ken-ichiro Murakami
        NTT Laboratories
        Tokyo, Japan