[44190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wireless traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Thayer)
Sun Nov 11 12:39:42 2001
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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:37:39 -0800
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Rodney Thayer <rodney@tillerman.to>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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but the AUI header was assigned back when it was aironet.
3com, as it exists now, is in fact an old terminal server company
called Bridge, which mutated into a router company, which got bought
by this silly little pc ethernet card vendor called 3Com, etc.etc.etc.
At 12:11 AM 11/10/2001 -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> >lucent and aironet (later cisco) never made wired cards so
> >I wouldn't expect that. also, I think that the non-ieee lists
> >tend to have more/better data on prefixs. I bet snort or etherpeek
> >or ethereal or sniffer or someone like that has a decent aui list.
>
>they might never have made cards you could plug into your pc or mac,
>per se, but cisco at least has made quite a name for itself by
>manufacturing a large pile of *other* networking equipment. a fair
>amount of which uses the same addressing style.
