Re: Upload Options

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tNOSPAMlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Tom Lucas" wrote:

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David R Brooks <davebXXX@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Lucas wrote:


Will I still have to pay for a MAC address or can I "borrow" one from
somewhere else seeing as it's not going to be on a worldwide network
(but
what happens if it is?)


192.168.0.x are basically pre-allocated for local use: they won't go
through a remote router. Something in that range should work.

That is one of the available private _IP_ address ranges. Unfortunately,
there are no such ranges for MAC addresses. Those should be bought or, as
suggested, borrowed from, for example, an old ethernet card that will be
scrapped after the MAC has been read from it.

Any idea how much it costs to buy, say 1000, MAC addresses?

Hmmm first you talk to IEEE to obtain either an OUI or IAB, where OUI
gives 3 octet company identifier and 3 octet you assign (24bit field).
Alternatively you can get an IAB which is a block of approx 4097 addresses.

OUI is about $1,650
IAB is about $550

Other charges related to being Public or Private listings.

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/index.html

Maybe someone could get an OUI and sell blocks of 128 or 1024 as I believe
somebody does but I cannot be sure on that.

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