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From: jaap@haring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Ethernet addressing
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Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 09:12:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 09:12:41 1984
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>> 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.