genly@mfci.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) (01/10/90)
Does anyone know who to contact to have a block of ethernet addresses assigned to a company? Does it cost anything?
drich@.UUCP (Dan Rich) (01/11/90)
To get a "real" Internet address, just send mail to hostmaster@NIC.DDN.MIL asking for information. They will send you a form to fill out, and when you return it to them they will assign you a registered Internet number. I just went through this a couple of months ago, and it is rather easy. The hard part comes when you try to change the numbers on an existing network (like I had to do). -- Dan Rich | ARPA: drich%dialogic@uunet.uu.net UNIX Systems Administrator | UUCP: uunet!dialogic!drich Dialogic Corporation | - Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. - (201) 334-1268 x213 | Douglas Adams
srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) (01/11/90)
You get Ethernet Address blocks from IEEE Standards Office 445 Hoes Lane P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 +1 201 562 3800 A block (of 2^24 addresses) costs $1000.00 and takes about 10 days to get. There's a short form you have to fill out, so call them and have them send you one.
jstewart@ncs.dnd.ca (John Stewart) (01/11/90)
In article <1180@m3.mfci.UUCP> genly@mfci.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes: >Does anyone know who to contact to have a block of ethernet addresses >assigned to a company? Does it cost anything? This was the address to write to last year: - Mr. Vincent Condello Telephone: (212) 705-7960 - IEEE Standards Office (212) 705-7092 - 345 E. 47th Street - New York, NY 10017 - -I phoned, and was given the phone number (201) 562-3812, so I guess -the offices have moved lately. I left my name and number. Lo and behold, -the next day I got a call from the office, they had looked up our -company name (Mitel), found it, and had the information sitting in front -of them. A quick note on my companys letterhead was all that I needed -to get a copy of this information. - (from an old message I posted last year). I don't know about charges, though, as I was just finding out information that had been lost well before my time. Good luck; John Stewart.
brooks@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (01/12/90)
Ours was obtained by email'ing to HOSTMASTER@SRI-NIC.ARPA or you could write them at: DDN Network Information Center SRI International Room EJ217 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 There wasn't any charge for our numbers.
pat@hprnd.HP.COM (Pat Thaler) (01/13/90)
> > To get a "real" Internet address, just send mail to > hostmaster@NIC.DDN.MIL asking for information. They will send you a > ---------- There is a confusion here between Internet addresses and Ethernet addresses. An Ethernet address is an address for the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer of the data link layer. Originally, when Ethernet was developed, Xerox distributed address blocks together with licenses to the Xerox Ethernet patents. All 802 protocols now share a common 48 bit MAC address space. IEEE has assumed responsibility from Xerox for administering address distribution. If you are operating over a LAN, your node is probably using a global address which was built in when it was manufactured. (It could also be using a 48 bit address out of the local part of the address space or a 16 bit address.) The node uses the MAC address to determine which packets on the LAN are for it and MAC bridges use it to route packets. The Internet address has nothing to do with the MAC (aka Ethernet) address. Pat Thaler