Ronneil Camara writes:
> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Gino LV. Ledesma wrote:
> >
> > >> the MAC address is guaranteed unique. think of it as
> > something like the
> > >> PIII serial number.
> > > Pardon my ignorance, but when you say MAC does it mean Mac
> > (brand) or is it
> > > a TLA?
> >
> > MAC - Media Access Control address. According to ugeek.com:
> > --
> > This is a unique 128-bit address of a network card or device.
> > The first
> > part of the address is unique to the company that produced
> > the device, and
> > beyond that, it is a sequence of digits unique to a single device
> > manufactured by a company.
>
> Sorry, I need to correct this out because afaik, MAC is only a 48 bits
> (6-byte) physical address which is 3 bytes vendor + 3 bytes serial number.
As I noted in my first response to this thread, it's 48 bits, the first 24
bits being the vendor code and the remainder being the serial number.
However, the serial number component is actually only 22 bits, with 2 bits
having a special purpose.
Brian
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