Re: Locally administrating MAC adresses

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From: johnmc
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:00

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>I cannot think of any possible advantage to *not* using the default
>IPX addresses.  For that matter, if my limited understanding is
>correct, on token-ring it isn't possible to not use the defaults.

Just as a matter of interest, with Token-Ring, it's possible and in some
cases, even desirable to override the burnt in address. You do this on the
DXMC driver in Config.sys ie DEVICE=c:\LAN DXMC0MOD.SYS 4000xxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxx can be chosen at random.
John Mc.

Ayrton Senna RIP!

These are my personal views and etc etc etc

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