Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!pag From: pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Ethernet addressing Message-ID: <999@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 19:03:27 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.999 Posted: Mon Jun 4 19:03:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 05:46:13 EDT References: <1329@uvacs.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 11 > 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 hao!pag