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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] unique MAC address allocation?
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:00:43 +0200
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>> > You had an area number that was 6 bits, and a 10 bit node
>> > number.  Then you appended this to AA:00:04:00 to get the MAC address.

on reflection this sounds more accurate.  seems that had taken
out several blocks of vendor-ids and used AA:00:04:00 to say
'mangled address, includes DECnet'.
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