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
>
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