Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site haring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!mcvax!turing!haring!jaap From: jaap@haring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Ethernet addressing Message-ID: <260@haring.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 09:12:41 EDT Article-I.D.: haring.260 Posted: Thu Jun 7 09:12:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 00:23:42 EDT References: <999@hao.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 Apparently-To: rnews@turing.LOCAL >> One suggestion made, I believe, by IEEE 802 is to assign unique network >> addresses by using the serial numbers on dollar bills The U.S. government >> already provides these unique IDs at a modest fee. One might take a >> dolloar bill, use the serial number as station address, and destroy the >> bill or tape it inside the cabinet to withdraw it from circulation. > >Sounds to me like a bureaucrat's secret plan to reduce the national debt ..... > >Make 'em use $100 bills, >peter gross So you have to pay an extra $100 for an unique address, whenever you buy an American Ethernet interface. It's even worse (or better). Non-American based manufacturers will need to print there own dollar bills to get an unique address. What a profit will they make! Jaap.