The "significant" indicates how the bits are stored in memory, which follows
the big-endian/little-endian paradigm. In big-endian the most significant
bit is stored first (IBM), whereas in little-endian, the least significant
bit is stored first (every body else).
CM
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Newbie question
Not being familiar with Token-Ring, well for that matter not much else
either, is this just the way it is stored in memory or if I were to sniff a
frame in Token-Ring on one side of the gateway/router I would see the MAC
address represented one way from left to right and if sniffe
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Newbie question
Not being familiar with Token-Ring, well for that matter not much else
either, is this just the way it is stored in memory or if I were to sni
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