From: Thomas Trygar (trygar@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 12:54:47 GMT-3
Try the following, it quick and dirty:
Hold both hands in front of you. Fingers up, thumbs tucked into your palm.
Have your palms facing towards you. Each finger represents a bit. Extend a
finger upward for each '1' and fold it down for each '0'. Apologies to the
arthritic and those offended by obscene gestures.
You now have represented the byte with your hands.
To convert, rotate your palms away from you and then cross your forearms to
make an 'X'. Read your fingers to reconstruct the HEX representation. Works
going from canonical to non-canonical and vice versa.
Tom Trygar
J K wrote:
> 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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