[107540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd:] Nvidia NICs with duplicate mac addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Sep 5 11:09:32 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:09:26 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080905150227.0E2924501A@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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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