On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:55, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:13:36AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > | MAC: (ethernet) MAC address of source and dest (but this has an unusual > | format, dunno why: 00:50:ba:7b:4a:1f:00:30:19:73:09:54:08:00 - not sure > | how to decode this. source and destination MAC are in there, for sure, > | but there are 2 bytes more. > > An ethernet MAC address is given in hex, and looks like > 00:A0:CC:35:09:AA. The first few bytes are the vendor's id, the rest > is "unique" (though I suspect the universe of unique numbers has run > out, just hope you don't get a duplicate on the same ethernet > segment). I think MAC is source and dest MAC concatenated, and some extra info added (protocol number of the ethernet header?). Or is it source MAC and a lot of extra info added? I'm quite sure at least one of the MACs is in there if not both (though I am not sure if you meant to contradict me or confirm me or what?) cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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