[124793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what about 48 bits?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Mon Apr 5 00:30:22 2010
In-Reply-To: <z2p25f9e2131004042117w4d8536bfn418d4589764af6fe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:29:44 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: "A.B. Jr." <skandor@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:17 PM, A.B. Jr. <skandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> While most of end user devices work with temporarily assigned IP addresses,
> or even with RFC1918 behind a NAT, very humble ethernet devices come from
> factory with a PERMANENTE unique mac address.
Just don't tell Greenpeace - I don't think we're quite at the state yet
where we need to start recycling the MAC addresses from thrown out CPE
routers. Plus I'm sure the CA government will be more than happy to add a
$4/device recycling fee for anything sold with a MAC address if they find
out about it.
Scott
(PS, I've run out of Popcorn - anyone got to share?)
