Re: Cannonical and non-cannonical MAC

From: J K (jim_koniecki@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 10:53:27 GMT-3


   
Im sorry but didnt we learn how to convert hex and binary back in the ccna
days . ? Dont know HEX what company do you work for ?

>From: Andrew <arousch@home.com>
>Reply-To: Andrew <arousch@home.com>
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Cannonical and non-cannonical MAC
>Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:59:00 -0500
>
>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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