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Re: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses


From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:09:26 -0400

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:02:27AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
FWIW, IEEE's OUI lookup page says that's not assigned to *anyone*.

    http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

No, the IEEE page does not say anything. For many years IEEE considered
OUIs to be confidential by default. IEEE would list the OUI only if a
box was checked on the application for the OUI. At some point the
default was changes to make the OUIs public, but existing "private"
entries remain private.

Ah, then you're correct; I characterised it worng.  Thanks for the
clarification; I hadn't realised that.

Cheers,
-- jra
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