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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Ethernet address (sans code) ?
- Message-ID: <01GTFCXB9CKY008O16@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:25:22 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- David P. Morgan, david@ittpub.nl, writes:
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- >How can one find out the Ethernet address of a node ?
- >
- >It's VMS 5.5. I know you can do it with a little bit of code and that's
- >straightforward but how can you do it with NCP, for instance ?
-
- The hardware address can be had with "NCP SHOW KNOWN LINE CHARACTERISTICS"
- and the DECnet address is computed based on your DECnet address:
-
- For example, I'm 33.475. 33*1024 + 475 = 34267 = %X85DB, so my physical
- address is: AA-00-04-00-DB-85 (you switch the hex digits around). All
- VAXes have AA-00-04-00-xx-yy as their Ethernet address, and "xx" "yy" are
- computed based on your DECnet address.
-
- This is supposed to change with DECnet Phase V.
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
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