Hi Peter, the plan was to use locally administered MAC address space (bit 2 of the first octet set to 1) which can be assigned by a local network administrator. But maybe this is not the case?
Cheers, Petri On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > Petri Pellinen wrote: > >> On a related note, does the JS ROM contain a machine-specific unique >> identifier somewhere? Would be helpful for MAC address generation. > > To roll your own address might not be a good idea. For each Ethernet MAC, > the address has to be unique worldwide, and should therefore be > registered. If I remember correctly, the IEEE charges a one-time fee of > more than $1500 to provide address space. > > So you probably want to look for a chip where the manufacturer has already > done the registration and provides the MAC address for you. I use the > CP2200 for this reason. And external network cards for the Q40/Q60. > > All the best, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
