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Tue, 3 Mar 1998 16:28:34 -0800
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Re: Who manufacture this token rin card?
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On  1 Mar 98 at 8:59, John Chin wrote:

> At 11:34 PM 2/27/1998 Choi Shing Yuen
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >  I have a token ring card but I cannot tell which driver to use. I
> >  read somewhere in the net that the mac address of the card
> >  can tell  me which company make the card.
> >
> >      M-NO:770000330     S/N:783904
> >      ECO: ABCDEFGHIJK
>
>
> Shing Yeun:
>
> By "mac address" do you mean a Canadian version of
> "FCC" numbers?

  No, the MAC address is the globally-unique 48-bit identifier issued
to each EtherNet NIC.  Presumably these identifiers are allocated to
various manufacturers in blocks, and so it's possible to determine
which manuafacturer's block the card's address was assigned from.

David G

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