[tulip] [tulip]: MAC Address Range Assignment

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, devdrvr wrote:

> I want to spin my own DEC chip based card for Linux boxes.  Who is the
> standards body or company that controls the dolling out of MAC address
> ranges nowadays?  I used to know this but have forgotten.  I looked at RFC
> 1700 and it is a mess and not clear, or current for that matter.

The IEEE.
They will assign you a vendor ID  which gets you 24 bits of serial number
    aa:bb:cc:**:**:**
It costs a few thousand dollars.
You may wish to just use addresses with the "local" bit set in the first
address byte.

Years ago pacific rim vendors were notorious for making up their own
station addresses.  Diamond Flower used 'D' 'F' 'E' as their address prefix.
Check the ID list on a network sniffer for examples.

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
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