If anyone is interested, I have written a javascript on one of my web pages
that will calculate the canonical MAC address of whatever you enter. The
URL is http://michael.gargantuan.com/network/calcmac.htm if you want to give
it a whirl....
HTH,
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: ElephantChild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:14 PM
To: Joe Martin
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PLS HELP - DLSW+ not working, token-ring attached FEP 3746
to a ethernet attached SNA client over Frame-relay...
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Joe Martin wrote:
> After writing down the binary representation of the mac address, read the
> binary from left to right instead of right to left. in other words,
> something like 04d0 binary 0000 0100 1101 0000 when read from left to
right
> becomes 02b0. then swap the nibbles so 02b0 becomes 200b.
ITYM read *each nibble* from left to right, not the whole 48-bit string.
A simpler way to say it is "read each *byte* from right to left." This
combines steps 2 and 3 below.
ObThreadLongPast: You could also learn to reverse hex digits in your
head and eliminate step 1. :-)
> ""Chuck Larrieu"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> 008901bfcabb$b82fd1e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:008901bfcabb$b82fd1e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Lost me someplace along the line, Joe. Step two - read from left to
right.
> >
> > You still on cloud nine, or is it past my bedtime? :->
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> Joe
> > Martin
> >
> > heres an example of conversion:
> >
> > 0060.035f.0804
> >
> > write it in binary
> > 0000 0000 0110 0000 . 0000 0011 0101 1111 . 0000 1000 0000 0100
> >
> > read it from left to right
> > 0060.0caf.0102
> >
> > swap the nibbles
> > 0006.c0fa.1020
> >
> > Thats it
> >
> > "Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > joe, can you pls. explain a little more in detail here, and how do i
do
> > the conversion, any doc. on this?
> > > thanks,
> > > mohan
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