Re: Cannonical and non-cannonical MAC

From: Andrew (arousch@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 09:59:00 GMT-3


   
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
>
>
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>
>---------- 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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