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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:51:08PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> >=20
> > What is it you are after?  Why would you need to change MAC addresses?
> > (the ONLY time I've ever needed it was with an HA/Failover situation).
>=20
> In order to run decnet???
> Requires locally administered addresses.  IIRC top 14 bits (after
> multicast/unicast and locally/globally administerd) are the network
> and bottom 32 the machine number.

Up to Phase IV, top 32 bits are AA-00-04-00, bottom 16 bits are 6 bits area=
 number
and 10 bits machine number. An area can consist of multiple machines.

I don't knowhow Phase V (DECnet-OSI) works.

Regards,
	-is

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