RE: [lwip-users] MAC Address?

[Bill Auerbach]

Why does it matter if someone knows your company's MAC address block?

If you go through IEEE, you get a 00:50:C2 block, which no one will know is 
your company's.

Bill

>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of John Kennedy
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>Just because they are private doesn't mean you can use them.
>
>Does anyone know the advantages/disadvantages of public/private Ethernet
>addresses?
>Apparently you have to pay IEEE $1000.00 every year to keep your
>Ethernet addresses private.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rishi Khan [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:19 AM
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>Subject: Re: [lwip-users] MAC Address?
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>
>>> Are there some pre-allocated MAC addresses one can use temporarily
>>> for testing?
>>>
>>
>> None that I know of, unfortunately.
>>
>
> From the ieee site:
>http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
>
>10:00:00:XX:XX:XX is private space.
>
>There are others if you flip through the file.
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