Ross Harvey writs:

>It's kind of fun to track down the devices sending 802.3 packets, just to
>see who "doesn't quite understand".

>This happens more than you would think when a standard gets established
>(ethernet) and then _later_ a standards committee (ieee 802.3) meets: the
>objective of the vendors that missed the boat (and the academics who didn't
>get to fiddle with it) is to _change_ the standard and delay the leaders;
>this is the price for their votes.

All too true.

Tho' in this case, there's also the people who really thought
emulating X.25 over Ethernet is a Good Idea, or who dont recognize
that SSAPs and DSAPs are strictly less useful than ethertypes,
necesssitating the SNAP drain-bamage just to get back to square one.
See RFC1042 p. 3, and all will be revealed.

If that's not bad enough, see the mess Novell made of picking an
encapsulation.