On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Fred wrote: > Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. > Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and > shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer buys a block of addresses from the > IEEE.
Yes, although folks can set the locally administered bit in the 6-byte MAC address instead of using globally administered addresses & vendor-assigned blocks from IEEE OUI... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
