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From: ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%Stasis.MRC.AdhocNet.CA%UNCAEDU.@CORNELLC.CCS.CORNELL.EDU.BITNET (Ed Wilts)
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Subject: delua vs. deuna vs. third party
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Date: 12 Jul 88 14:49:41 GMT
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DON'T buy third party!  (that subtle enough for you :-)).
DEC cheats in their DECnet code and will only store the trailing 3 parts
(6 digits) of an Ethernet address.  For example, if your ethernet address
is "08-00-36-e9-1e-00", DEC only uses "e9-1e-00".  This is because the first
3 parts are reserved to the manufacturer.  We have a third party Ethernet
controller made by Intergraph Corp., and it will NOT run DECnet.  DEC assumes
that they know the first 3 parts because they have them reserved.  In our
case, nothing we can do will convince DECnet to run on our controller.  In
order to run DECnet, we must buy DEC's Ethernet controller.
DEC's statement on this is that they consider DECnet/Ethernet so important
in their corporate strategy that they don't trust anyone else to implement
it.  If that sounds like a load of crock to you, then you must agree with me.
Anyway, buy a DEC controller...

        .../Ed          (ewilts%ins.mrc.adhocnet.ca@uncaedu.bitnet)

Ed Wilts
Sr. Systems Analyst
Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada