Re: Cannonical and non-cannonical MAC

From: John Conzone (jkconzone@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 09:32:49 GMT-3


   
    If they don't then they shouldn't be on the list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew" <arousch@home.com>
To: "Earl Aboytes" <earl@linkline.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; "Tony
Olzak" <aolzak@buckeye-express.com>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Cannonical and non-cannonical MAC

> you're assuming that everyone on the list knows how to convert to HEX ;)
>
> At 04:22 PM 10/23/00 -0700, Earl Aboytes wrote:
> >Canonical =Ethernet format NonCanonical=TokenRing and DLSW format.
> >1. Take each byte and translate to binary.
> >2. Then take each nibble and reverse the order and translate to hex.
> >3. Flip each nibble.
> >Here is an example
> >00-d0-97-85-88-00 hex Canonical
> >0000 0000-1101 0000-1001 0111-1000 0101-1000 1000-0000 0000 binary
> >0000 0000-1011 0000-1001 1110-0001 1010-0001 0001-0000 0000 reverse order
at
> >each nibble
> >00-b0-9e-1a-11-00 convert to hex
> >00-0b-e9-a1-11-00 flip each nibble
> >00-0b-e9-a1-11-00 Non-canonical format
> >
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Earl Aboytes CCIE #6097
> >Senior Systems Engineer
> >Datatran Network Services
> >805-498-2450
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> >From: "Tony Olzak" <aolzak@buckeye-express.com>
> >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:01:33 -0400
> >
> > >How do you convert from one to the other? All I have is a chart, but
> > that does me no good in the lab.
> > >
> > >
> > >Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >



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